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[ UK /ʌnˈɜːθli/ ]
[ US /əˈnɝθɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
    an eldritch screech
    he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din
    stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures
    an unearthly light
    the three weird sisters
  2. concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
    unearthly love
    spiritual values
    spiritual fulfillment
    a spiritual approach to life

How To Use unearthly In A Sentence

  • The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
  • A cat less agile than the rest of his species had been known to entangle himself in the little swing window, and to hang there all the night, sending forth unearthly caterwaulings, to the unspeakable terror of Miss Wendover's guest, unfamiliar with the mechanism of the room, and wondering what breed of Hampshire demon or afrit was thus making night hideous. The Golden Calf
  • Over the ruins of the castle rose an unearthly wind, carrying with it an inhuman wail.
  • These yield an unearthly effect, especially since the artist has draped his monogram, suspended from a garland, across the top of the picture.
  • Vegetarians even have their own central section (the vegetarian bar) on the long buffet table, which is skylit by an unearthly golden glow.
  • An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks. CHAPTER 20
  • It was human-shaped, tall and muscular, but it glowed with an unearthly blue light.
  • Morgan braced himself as the process began; the whole room shook as the generators began churning out an unearthly hum.
  • Over the ruins of the castle rose an unearthly wind, carrying with it an inhuman wail.
  • If it's not interrupting teatime viewing of The Simpsons then it's popping up at the most unearthly of hours.
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