Unearthly \Un*earth"ly\, a.
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird;
appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unearthly
adj 1: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual
approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual
values"; "unearthly love" [syn: spiritual]
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "unearthly":
Christlike, Christly, Elysian, God-fearing, Olympian, a bit thick,
a bit thin, abnormal, absurd, airy, angelic, arcane, asomatous,
astral, balmy, beatific, beatified, beyond belief, bizarre,
blessed, blue, bodiless, cadaverous, celestial, corpselike, crazy,
creepy, curious, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale,
decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, doubtable,
doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eccentric, eerie, eldritch, esoteric,
ethereal, extramundane, extraordinary, extrasensory,
extraterrestrial, fantastic, fey, freaked out, freaky,
from on high, funny, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glorified,
godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, grisly, gruesome, haggard,
hard of belief, hard to believe, heavenly, holy, holy-minded,
hypernormal, hyperphysical, immaterial, impalpable, implausible,
imponderable, in glory, inconceivable, incorporate, incorporeal,
incredible, insane, insubstantial, intangible, kooky, livid, loony,
lurid, macabre, miraculous, mortuary, mysterious, nonmaterial,
nonphysical, not deserving belief, numinous, occult, odd, oddball,
off, off the wall, open to doubt, open to suspicion, otherworldly,
out, outlandish, outrageous, pale, paradisaic, paradisal,
paradisiac, paradisic, passing belief, passing strange, peculiar,
phantom, preposterous, preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal,
pretersensual, problematic, psychic, psychical, pure,
pure in heart, purehearted, quaint, queer, questionable,
ridiculous, righteous, saintlike, saintly, seraphic, shadowy,
silly, singular, spectral, spiritual, spiritual-minded, spookish,
spooky, staggering belief, strange, sublime, superhuman, superior,
supermundane, supernal, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical,
supersensible, supersensory, supersensual, supramundane,
supranatural, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin,
transcendental, transmundane, unbelievable, uncanny, unconvincing,
unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, ungodly, unheard-of, unhuman,
unimaginable, unnatural, unphysical, unreal, unreasonable,
unsubstantial, unthinkable, unusual, unworldly, unworthy of belief,
wacky, wan, weird, wondrous strange
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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