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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn: skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (spookier; -est) Date: 1854 1. relating to, resembling, or suggesting spooks 2. nervous, skittish <a spooky horse> • spookily adverb • spookiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (spookier, spookiest) 1 colloq. ghostly, eerie. 2 US sl. nervous; easily frightened. 3 US sl. of spies or espionage. Derivatives: spookily adv. spookiness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(spookier, spookiest) A place that is spooky has a frightening atmosphere, and makes you feel that there are ghosts around. (INFORMAL) The whole place has a slightly spooky atmosphere. = creepy ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

creepy, eerie, eldritch, fidgety, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, goosey, haunted, high-strung, jittery, jumpy, macabre, nervy, obsessed, ominous, possessed, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted, spooked, spookish, twittery, uncanny, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unrestful, weird