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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
/ ÊŒ²ÔˈɜËθ±ôɪ /
adjective
- ghostly; eerie; weird
unearthly screams
- heavenly; sublime
unearthly music
- ridiculous or unreasonable (esp in the phrase unearthly hour )
Derived Forms
- ³Ü²Ôˈ±ð²¹°ù³Ù³ó±ô¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ü²Ô·±ð²¹°ù³Ù³ól¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog 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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