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Unearthly definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNEARTHLY, a. unerth'ly. Not terrestrial.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love" [syn: spiritual, unearthly]
2: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1611 not earthly: as a. not mundane ; ideal <unearthly love> b. not terrestrial <unearthly radio sources> c. preternatural, supernatural <an unearthly light> d. weird, eerie <unearthly howls> e. absurd, ungodly <gets up at an unearthly hour> • unearthliness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 supernatural, mysterious. 2 colloq. absurdly early or inconvenient (an unearthly hour). 3 not earthly. Derivatives: unearthliness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unearthly Un*earth"ly, a. Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. You use unearthly to describe something that seems very strange and unnatural. For a few seconds we watched the unearthly lights on the water... The sound was so serene that it seemed unearthly. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. If you refer to a time as an unearthly hour, you are emphasizing that it is very early in the morning. They arranged to meet in Riverside Park at the unearthly hour of seven in the morning. = ungodly ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis] 3. An unearthly noise is unpleasant because it sounds frightening and unnatural. She heard the sirens scream their unearthly wail. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Supernatural, preternatural, weird.

Moby Thesaurus

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