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uncanny

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore U words

strange or mysterious in an unsettling way

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Uncanny in a sentence

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She had an uncanny ability to predict exactly what others were thinking.

Synonyms
eerieweirdunearthly
Antonyms
ordinarymundane

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Verbal · Text Completion

Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Uncanny (adjective) means strange or mysterious in an unsettling way
Here is uncanny used in an example sentence: "She had an uncanny ability to predict exactly what others were thinking."
Common synonyms for uncanny include eerie, weird, unearthly.
Antonyms of uncanny include ordinary, mundane.
Uncanny is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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