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unearthliness - 2 dictionary results

un⋅earth⋅ly

  [uhn-urth-lee]
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–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

Related forms:
un⋅earth⋅li⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
2. preternatural, spectral. See weird.
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un·earth·ly   (ŭn-ûrth'lē)   
adj.   un·earth·li·er, un·earth·li·est
  1. Not of this earth; preternatural; supernatural.
  2. Unnaturally strange and frightening. See Synonyms at weird.
  3. Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd: called me at an unearthly hour.
un·earth'li·ness n.
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