strange and difficult to explain synonym weird异常的;难以解释的 I had an uncanny feeling I was being watched. 我有种被人监视的奇怪感觉。 It was uncanny really, almost as if she knew what I was thinking. 真是不可思议,她好像知道我在想什么似的。 He has an uncanny knack of being able to see immediately where the problem lies. 他有一种不可思议的本领,能够立即发现问题所在。 She bore a quite uncanny resemblance to my Auntie Elsie. 她和我的埃尔西阿姨有着惊人的相似之处。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUncanny is used with these nouns:- ability
- accuracy
- knack
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots in the sense ‘relating to the occult, malicious’): from un- ‘not’ + canny.