adjective
- seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
- supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird: an unearthly scream.
- out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd: to get up at an unearthly hour.
adjective
- ghostly; eerie; weirdunearthly screams
- heavenly; sublimeunearthly music
- ridiculous or unreasonable (esp in the phrase unearthly hour)
adj.1610s, “heavenly, sublime,” from un- (1) “not” + earthly. Sense of “ghostly, weird” first recorded 1802. Related: Unearthliness.