UNEARTHLY


Meaning of UNEARTHLY in English

— unearthliness , n.

/un errth"lee/ , adj.

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.

[ 1605-15; UN- 1 + EARTHLY ]

Syn. 2. preternatural, spectral. See weird .

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