unheimlich
Meaning
- uncanny
- creepy, eerie
- incredible
- (colloquial) large; (intensifier) very in an overbearing way
Frequency
Hyphenated as
un‧heim‧lich
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʊnˌhaɪ̯m.lɪç/
Etymology
From Middle High German unheimlich, from Old High German *unheimlīh, equivalent to un- + heimlich (“familiar”).
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