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Antonyms for unearthly
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : uhn-urth-lee |
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈɜrθ li |
Definition of unearthly
Origin :- 1610s, "heavenly, sublime," from un- (1) "not" + earthly. Sense of "ghostly, weird" first recorded 1802. Related: Unearthliness.
- adj supernatural; very strange
- It was motionless as marble; but never had she seen anything so beautiful, and so unearthly.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- "What an unearthly hour," he said, unable to check the yawns.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- When first I saw the donkey I saw him in the sunlight as the unearthly gargoyle that he is.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- The steel-shod sides were bathed in an unearthly orange glow.
- Extract from : « Pirates of the Gorm » by Nat Schachner
- It covered the dawn, the clouding and the unearthly sunset of a hope.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- The silence of the room was broken by a fall, a succession of unearthly screams.
- Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
- Socrates as yet does not know himself; and why should he care to know about unearthly monsters?
- Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato
- His answer was an unearthly howl from the box, accompanied by a mighty scratching.
- Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- In seconds the room was filled with unearthly hoots and wails and whistles.
- Extract from : « Invasion » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- There was a roar in his ears like the bombardment of unearthly artillery.
- Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
Synonyms for unearthly
- abnormal
- absurd
- appalling
- demoniac
- devilish
- eerie
- ethereal
- extraordinary
- fiendish
- frightening
- funereal
- ghastly
- ghostly
- ghoulish
- hair-raising
- haunted
- heavenly
- hyperphysical
- miraculous
- nightmarish
- not of this world
- phantom
- preternatural
- ridiculous
- scary
- sepulchral
- spectral
- spooky
- sublime
- superhuman
- uncanny
- ungodly
- unholy
- unreasonable
- weird
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