Unearthly definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary UNEARTHLY, a. unerth'ly. Not terrestrial. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005 ... 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 ... 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 [ ...
... 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] 2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight ... uncanny mean mysteriously strange or fantastic. weird may imply an unearthly or supernatural strangeness or it may stress queerness or oddness ... pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc. Myself too ... 3. Prediction. II. a. 1. Skilled in witchcraft. 2. Supernatural, unearthly, wild. Moby Thesaurus Friday, Friday the thirteenth, absurd, appointed ...
... 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] 2: surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability ... mortuary, mysterious, numinous, pale, spookish, spooky, superhuman, supernormal, unco, uncolike, unearthly, unnatural, wan, weird
unearthliness definitions Merriam Webster's noun see unearthly 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.
... 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 Etymology: perhaps from Middle English *elfriche ...
... Webster's adjective Date: 1707 1. not of this world ; unearthly; specifically spiritual 2. a. not wise in the ways of ... supernormal, superphysical, supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental, transmundane, unaffected, unartificial, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unhuman, unphysical, unschooled, unstudied, unsubstantial, untutored, visionary
... in the morning. ...at the ungodly hour of 4.00am. = unearthly ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis] 3. If you refer to the ... unangelic, unbecoming, unbelievable, unchaste, unchristian, uncivilized, unclean, unconscionable, unconvincing, undecorous, unearthly, ungood, unhallowed, unholy, unimaginable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unthinkable, untoward, unvirtuous, unworthy ...