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Another word for unearthly

unearthly Synonyms

unearthly

modif.

ghoulish, frightening, ghastly, fiendish, ghostly, supernatural, preternatural, appalling, sepulchral, funereal, devilish, hair-raising, eldritch, demoniac, Satanic, eerie, spectral, uncanny, haunted, spooky.

Antonyms common, familiar, homely. See syn. study at weird.weird.

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Another word for unearthly

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Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world:
extramundane, extrasensory, metaphysical, miraculous, preternatural, superhuman, supernatural, superphysical, supersensible, transcendental. See supernatural
Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature:
eerie, uncanny, weird. (Informal) spooky. See fear, usual
So senseless as to be laughable:
absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, lunatic, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, zany. (Informal) cockeyed, crazy, loony, loopy. (Slang) balmy², dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ability, knowledge

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It showed him in battle, his hardened body moving with unearthly speed and agility against enemies that were obscured.
With the splendour of the full moon falling upon him, his hand clasping his Shakespeare, and looking, as we are told, almost unearthly in the majestic beauty of his old age, Tennyson passed away at Aldworth on the night of the 6th of October 1892.
Although Coleridge had, for many years before his death, almost entirely forsaken poetry, the few fragments of work which remain, written in later years, show little trace of weakness, although they are wanting in the unearthly melody which imparts such a charm to Kubla Khan, Love and Youth and Age.
The girl Nongkwase, standing in the river where the spirits had first appeared, heard unearthly noises, interpreted by her father as orders to kill more and more cattle.
It prefers by day the gloom of caves and ruins, or of the burrows which it occasionally forms, and issues forth at sunset, when it commences its unearthly howling.

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