Unearthly

Word UNEARTHLY
Character 9
Hyphenation un earth ly
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Unearthly"

What do we mean by unearthly?

Not of this earth; preternatural; supernatural. adjective

Unnaturally strange and frightening. synonym: weird. adjective

Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd. adjective

Not earthly; not terrestrial; supernatural; not like, or as if not proceeding from, anything belonging to the earth; unworldly; hence, weird; appalling: as, an unearthly cry or sight.

Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific. adjective

Not of the earth. adjective

Non-terrestrial. adjective

Preternatural or supernatural. adjective

Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious. adjective

Ideal beyond the mundane. adjective

Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous. adjective

Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul adjective

Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences adjective

Not of the earth; non-terrestrial.

Preternatural or supernatural.

Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.

Ideal beyond the mundane.

Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Unearthly

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The word "unearthly" in example sentences

Southern Tier's unearthly is an Imperial India Pale Ale that checks in at a huge 11% ABV. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We know that everything we are seeing is currently dreadfully wrong, that the people we are being introduced to will most likely either try to kill us or will die in unearthly ways, and and we will soon discover how haywire everything is. ❋ Kibbles (2004)

The day had a certain unearthly beauty – most of our Memorial Days do have. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Think about and TV/movie underwater action--say, for example, Thunderball--the good ones actually manage to convey to you, through the moving pictures and the sound and the soundtrack, that we're some ultra cool "unearthly" realm. ❋ Michael May (2008)

Yet it had a kind of unearthly beauty that was all Sisay's own. ❋ Lebaron, Francis (1999)

Dick also got his gun in readiness for instant action, and the boys were just about to fire when a noise, best described as "unearthly," smote their ears. ❋ Willard F. Baker (N/A)

His odd colour and eyes gave a kind of unearthly tone to the interview. ❋ Wilfrid Ch��teauclair (N/A)

That is what I call The Dream to myself, ` Out on the Hillside, 'as if it were a kind of unearthly poem. ❋ Unknown (1917)

One wonders if it is clearly understood how the "unearthly" element in Poe differs from the "unearthly" element in Shelley. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Once, in the impenetrable gloom of the midnight forest, Mackenzie was awakened by a plaintive chant in a kind of unearthly music. ❋ Unknown (1903)

"Some kinder colored fire, that they were going to light at quite a distance from here, to give an 'unearthly' glow through the woods." ❋ Unknown (1895)

By the light of a lamp not far off Robert caught the attenuated whiteness and sharpness of the well-known face, to which weeks of fasting and mystical excitement had given a kind of unearthly remoteness. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

The gushing of my native brooks, the sough of the old solitary woods, the great roar of old native Solway (billowing fresh out of your Atlantic, drawn by the Moon): all this was a kind of unearthly music to me; I cannot tell you how unearthly. ❋ Carlyle, Thomas (1883)

The child rose, and pointed her little hand to the sky; the glow of evening lit her golden hair and flushed cheek with a kind of unearthly radiance, and her eyes were bent earnestly on the skies. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

The gushing of my native brooks, the _sough_ of the old solitary woods, the great roar of old native Solway (billowing fresh out of your Atlantic, drawn by the Moon): all this was a kind of unearthly music to me; I cannot tell you how unearthly. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

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