Unearthly Synonyms and Antonyms

ŭn-ûrthlē
Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. supernatural
  2. extramundane
  3. extrasensory
  4. metaphysical
  5. miraculous
  6. preternatural
  7. superhuman
  8. superphysical
  9. supersensible
  10. transcendental
Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. uncanny
  2. eerie
  3. spooky
  4. weird
  5. ghostly
  6. preternatural
  7. eldritch
  8. supernatural
  9. spectral
  10. ghoulish
  11. frightening
  12. ghastly
  13. fiendish
  14. appalling
  15. apalling
  16. sepulchral
  17. awesome
  18. funereal
  19. celestial
  20. devilish
  21. chthonian
  22. hair-raising
  23. ethereal
  24. demoniac
  25. fantastic
  26. satanic
  27. heavenly
  28. miraculous
  29. mysterious
  30. haunted
  31. strange
  32. superhuman
  33. terrific
  34. ungodly
  35. unworldly
Antonyms:
  1. common
  2. familiar
  3. homely. See syn. study at weird.weird
  4. homely
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Unnaturally strange and frightening.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weird

Words Related to Unearthly

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Unearthly Sentence Examples

  • It showed him in battle, his hardened body moving with unearthly speed and agility against enemies that were obscured.

  • On a clear day, the Hazards seem to glow with an unearthly pink light.

  • 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.

  • In comparing the Irish tales with the saga, there will be felt deep divergencies in matter, style and taste, the richness of one contrasting with the chastened simplicity of the other; the one's half-comic, half-earnest bombast is wholly unlike the other's grim humour; the marvellous, so unearthly in the one, is almost credible in the other; but in both are the keen grasp of character, the biting phrase, the love of action and the delight in blood which almost assumes the garb of a religious passion.

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