Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly
(adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; “an eldritch screech”; “the three weird sisters”; “stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures”- John Galsworthy; “an unearthly light”; “he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din”- Henry Kingsley
preternatural, uncanny
(adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal; “Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel” - George Will; “his uncanny sense of direction”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
uncanny (comparative uncannier, superlative uncanniest)
Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
(UK dialectal) Careless.
uncanny
(psychology, psychoanalysis, Freud) Something that is simultaneously familiar and strange, typically leading to feelings of discomfort; translation of Freud's usage of the German "unheimlich" (literally "unsecret").
In common modern usage, "canny" and "uncanny" are no longer antonyms, although they are not synonyms.
Source: Wiktionary
Un*can"ny, a.
Definition: Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly. Sir W. Scott.
– Un*can"ni*ness, n. G. Eliot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 February 2025
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.