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unearthliness

[uhn-urth-lee] Origin

un·earth·ly

[uhn-urth-lee]
adjective
1.
seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
2.
supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird: an unearthly scream.
3.
out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd: to get up at an unearthly hour.

Origin:
1605–15; un-1 + earthly

un·earth·li·ness, noun


2. preternatural, spectral. See weird.

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Unearthliness is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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unearthly (ʌnˈɜːθlɪ)
 
adj
1.  ghostly; eerie; weird: unearthly screams
2.  heavenly; sublime: unearthly music
3.  ridiculous or unreasonable (esp in the phrase unearthly hour)
 
un'earthliness
 
n

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Word Origin & History

unearthly
1610s, "heavenly, sublime," from un- (1) "not" + earthly. Sense of "ghostly, weird" first recorded 1802.
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unearthly definition


  1. mod.
    weird; terrible. : There was an unearthly smell coming out of the kitchen.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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