Uncanny

 WORD OF THE DAY

uncanny / adjective / un-KAN-ee

Definition
1a: seeming to have a supernatural character or origin
1b: eerie, mysterious
1c: being beyond what is normal or expected
1d: suggesting superhuman or supernatural powers
2 (chiefly Scotland): severe, punishing

Examples
"Having reinvented contemporary circus as an aesthetically ambitious artform, the company here demonstrates ... what can be achieved when uncanny acrobatic prowess meets the poised spatial intelligence of contemporary dance and the intensities of physical theatre."
— Andrew Fuhrmann, Cameron Woodhead, and Jessica Nicholas, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), 10 Apr. 2022

That uncanny ability led to the 6-foot-3, 190-pound Detroit native collecting nine total interceptions – including returning two for touchdowns – and not allowing a receiving touchdown during his three-year Cincinnati career.
— Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2022

Did You Know?
Weird and eerie are synonyms of uncanny, but there are subtle differences in the meanings of the three words.
Weird may be used to describe something that is generally strange or out of the ordinary.
Eerie suggests an uneasy or fearful consciousness that some kind of mysterious and malign powers are at work, while uncanny, which debuted in the 18th century, implies disquieting strangeness or mysteriousness.
English also has a word canny, but canny and uncanny should not be interpreted as opposites.
Canny, which first appeared in English in the 16th century, means "clever," "shrewd," or "prudent," as in "a canny lawyer" or "a canny investment."