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unearthly

[ uhn-urth-lee ]

adjective

  1. seeming not to belong to this earth or world:

    unearthly beauty.

  2. supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird:

    an unearthly scream.

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  3. out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd:

    to get up at an unearthly hour.



unearthly

/ ÊŒ²ÔˈɜËθ±ôɪ /

adjective

  1. ghostly; eerie; weird

    unearthly screams

  2. heavenly; sublime

    unearthly music

  3. ridiculous or unreasonable (esp in the phrase unearthly hour )
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Derived Forms

  • ³Ü²Ôˈ±ð²¹°ù³Ù³ó±ô¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ü²Ô·±ð²¹°ù³Ù³ól¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of unearthly1

First recorded in 1605–15; un- 1 + earthly
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Synonym Study

See weird.
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Example Sentences

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That makes the Palisades fire all the more unearthly.

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“It was going to be almost a vocal earthwork,†said Aitken, who tends to think and speak in floating, unearthly concepts.

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I may have dozed just lightly when an unearthly moan jarred me awake.

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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.

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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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