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I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.
Greg van Eekhout

Meaning of "eldritch" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ELDRITCH

Perhaps from Old English ælfelf + rīce realm.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ELDRITCH

eldritch  [ˈɛldrɪtʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELDRITCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Eldritch is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ELDRITCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of eldritch in the English dictionary

The definition of eldritch in the dictionary is unearthly; weird.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELDRITCH


eldrich
ˈɛldrɪtʃ
enrich
ɪnˈrɪtʃ
estrich
ˈɛstrɪtʃ
Goderich
ˈɡəʊdrɪtʃ
Harwich
ˈhærɪtʃ
orach
ˈɒrɪtʃ
orache
ˈɒrɪtʃ
ostrich
ˈɒstrɪtʃ
overrich
ˌəʊvəˈrɪtʃ
parritch
ˈpærɪtʃ
rich
rɪtʃ
scritch
skrɪtʃ
shritch
ʃrɪtʃ
strich
strɪtʃ
superrich
ˌsuːpərˈrɪtʃ
ultrarich
ˌʌltrəˈrɪtʃ
vitamin-rich
ˌvɪtəmɪnˈrɪtʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELDRITCH

elder
Elder Brethren
Elder Edda
elder statesman
elderberries
elderberry
eldercare
elderflower
elderliness
elderly
eldership
eldest
eldin
ELDO
Eldon
eldorado
ELDR
eldress
eldrich

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELDRITCH

bitch
carritch
chain stitch
cross-stitch
ditch
fitch
glitch
hitch
itch
light switch
mitch
on-off switch
pitch
slip stitch
snitch
son of a bitch
stitch
switch
twitch
witch

Synonyms and antonyms of eldritch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «eldritch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELDRITCH

Find out the translation of eldritch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of eldritch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «eldritch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怪异
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

eldritch
570 millions of speakers

English

eldritch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डरावना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

eldritch
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жуткий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Eldritch
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অতিপ্রাকৃত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

eldritch
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Eldritch
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eldritch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

気味の悪い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무시 무시한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Eldritch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rùng rợn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

eldritch
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोठेपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

büyülü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Eldritch
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Eldritch
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

моторошний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Eldritch
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Eldritch
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Eldritch
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

eldritch
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Eldritch
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of eldritch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELDRITCH»

The term «eldritch» is regularly used and occupies the 75.946 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELDRITCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about eldritch

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QUOTES WITH «ELDRITCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word eldritch.
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Greg van Eekhout
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELDRITCH»

Discover the use of eldritch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eldritch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Eldritch Tales
Many of these stories have never been available in the UK! Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide ...
H.P. Lovecraft, 2011
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Book of Eldritch Might 2: Songs and Souls of Power
The power of magic can be summoned in many ways.
Monte Cook, 2002
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Palmer Eldritch returns from the edge of the universe with a drug called Chew-D for the colonists of Mars who are under threat of god-like or satanic psychics that threaten to wage war against the human soul.
Philip K. Dick, 2011
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Eldritch Manor
Short listed for the Forest of Reading - Silver Birch Award for Fiction, 2014 and for the Rocky Mountain Book Award, 2014 Twelve-year-old Willa Fuller is convinced that the old folks in the shabby boarding house down the street are ...
Kim Thompson, 2012
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The Rimers of Eldritch: A Play in Two Acts
A true original, this fresh and richly imaginative work explores the trauma of growing up from a unique and arresting point of view.
Lanford Wilson, 1967
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The Eldritch Conspiracy
Celia Graves was once an ordinary human, but those days are long gone.
Cat Adams, 2013
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Space Eldritch
Featuring work by Brad R. Torgersen (Hugo/ Nebula/Campbell nominee), Howard Tayler (multiple Hugo nominee), and Michael R. Collings (author of over 100 books), plus a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Larry Correia, SPACE ...
D. J. Butler, Michael R. Collings, Robert J. Defendi, 2012
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Book of Eldritch Might III: The Nexus
Fantasirollespil.
Monte Cook, 2003
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Ask Dr. Eldritch Volume #1 Are Aliens Eating My Crackers?
The first collection of letters from "Ask Dr. Eldritch," the world's best advice column for superheroes, mythical creatures and ordinary people in extraordinary situations!
Evan Nichols, 2009
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Eldritch Evolutions: 26 Weird Science Fiction, Dark Fantasy, ...
ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS is the first collection of short stories by Lois H. Gresh, one of the most talented writers working these days in the realms of imagination.
Lois H. Gresh, William Jones, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELDRITCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term eldritch is used in the context of the following news items.
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The New York Stock Exchange goes down: inside the dystopian …
That's when we see those pile of spleens – some glistening fresh, others roasted black – presented as an eldritch offering before the Google ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
What's it like visiting the set of a TV show? We dropped by The …
Jonathan Hyde, who plays Eldritch Palmer, comes in right after, and gives off a completely different vibe. Arch, British, charming, like what I ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
3
ATP Saturday: Hit And Miss
They sounded like a tribal cult that Indiana Jones would find chanting to summon Cthulhu or some other eldritch horror to this existence. «Reykjavík Grapevine, Jul 15»
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Fantasy Sports: dungeon crawl ends in epic, eldritch basketball game
1, a berzerker adventurer and his spellslinging, underappreciated apprentice go on a dungeon crawl that takes them into an eldritch game of ... «Boing Boing, Jul 15»
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Revolver revisited: music shop where Bristol found its groove
... inevitably falls in: the use of such words as "eldritch" and "liminal" is usually a sign of over-writing, and so - very occasionally - it proves here. «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
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A Group of Friends, Mourning Brian Clark
... ways of telling stories through his work on beloved alternate reality games like Sega's Beta-7, Audi's Art of the Heist, and Eldritch Errors. «Alternate Reality Gaming Network, Jul 15»
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Ultimate Commander
The mindbender is a kind of eldritch-themed enchantment-specialist with a limited array of SPs that help recruiting and succinctly, ways of ... «NERD TREK, Jul 15»
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The 4 Marvel Characters Who Could Kill Superman!
... astral projection, molecular rearrangement, eldritch energy blasts, illusion casting, flight (via levitation), telepathy, hypnosis, and teleportation. «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
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Reasons to be fearful are no laughing matter
Perhaps your Nan booked Pennywise the Dancing Clown for your eighth birthday party not realising that he was an eldritch entity of evil who is ... «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Jun 15»
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Garrett Richards pitches strong, Kole Calhoun goes yard as Angels …
... tonight in Anaheim for a game on Fox, soundtracked by the alien and eldritch drone of Matt Vasgersian, and the always grating Eric Karros. «Halo's Heaven, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
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