unearthly









unearthly


adjective

  1. seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
  2. supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird: an unearthly scream.
  3. out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd: to get up at an unearthly hour.

adjective

  1. ghostly; eerie; weirdunearthly screams
  2. heavenly; sublimeunearthly music
  3. 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.

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