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unearthly
[uhn-urth-lee]
adjective
seeming not to belong to this earth or world.
unearthly beauty.
supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird.
an unearthly scream.
Synonyms: ,out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd.
to get up at an unearthly hour.
unearthly
/ ʌˈɜːθɪ /
adjective
ghostly; eerie; weird
unearthly screams
heavenly; sublime
unearthly music
ridiculous or unreasonable (esp in the phrase unearthly hour )
Other 51Թ Forms
- unearthliness noun
- ܲˈٳԱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of unearthly1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
That makes the Palisades fire all the more unearthly.
“It was going to be almost a vocal earthwork,” said Aitken, who tends to think and speak in floating, unearthly concepts.
I may have dozed just lightly when an unearthly moan jarred me awake.
They did not leave disappointed as the sun shrank to a crescent-like sliver of light that cast an unearthly pale gloom over the city.
That led to a weekslong hunt and an even longer court battle over an unusual question: Who owns an unearthly object that falls to Earth?
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