Another word for unearthly
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Adjective
Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world
- Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.
- Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.
- Surpassing all others; superior.
- Beyond or above perception by the senses.
- Exceeding or going beyond the purely physical.
- Not explained by known physical laws; preternatural or supernatural.
- Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
- Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
- Of or relating to a deity.
- Above or beyond the human; preternatural or supernatural.
- Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience:
- Surpassing what is normal or usual; extraordinary:
- Transcending the natural or material order; supernatural.
- Of the nature of a miracle; preternatural.
- So astounding as to suggest a miracle; phenomenal:
- Able to work miracles.
- Of or relating to metaphysics.
- Based on speculative or abstract reasoning.
- Immaterial or supernatural:
- Being outside the normal range or bounds of the senses.
- Occurring or existing outside of the physical world or universe.
See also:Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature
- Suggestive of ghosts or spirits, especially in being eerie or disturbing:
- Easily startled; skittish:
- Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange:
- Suggestive of the supernatural:
- Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
- Mysterious or impossible to explain, especially when causing uneasiness or astonishment.
- Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.
- Frightened or intimidated by superstition.
So senseless as to be laughable
- Eccentric or irrational:
- Crazy; silly:
- Excessively sentimental; mawkish.
- Silly or foolish.
- Full of sap.
- Characterized by jerks or jerking:
- Foolish; silly:
- Dazed or lethargic, as if drugged.
- Stupid; doltish:
- Silly; foolish:
- Not sensible; foolish.
- Having the quality or fragrance of balm; soothing.
- Mild and pleasant:
- Eccentric in behavior.
- Consisting of or having many loops:
- Crazy or eccentric:
- Offbeat or bizarre:
- Extremely foolish or silly.
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- A foolish or crazy person.
- Mentally deranged.
- Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement:
- Immoderately fond; infatuated:
- Foolish; ridiculous; absurd:
- Askew; crooked.
- Intoxicated; drunk.
- Comical or ludicrous because of incongruity or strangeness.
- A comical person given to extravagant or outlandish behavior.
- A ludicrous, buffoonish character in old comedies who attempts feebly to mimic the tricks of the clown.
- A stupid or foolish person.
- Extremely foolish or stupid.
- Lacking judgment, realism, or firmness.
- Having or exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense; foolish.
- Lacking seriousness or responsibleness; frivolous:
- Semiconscious; dazed:
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- Lacking intelligible meaning:
- Foolish; absurd:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting mild intellectual disability. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
- A very foolish person.
- Affected by lunacy; mentally deranged.
- Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with mental derangement. Not used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- Characteristic of or associated with persons who are mentally deranged:
- Intended for use by such persons:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
- Embarrassed; abashed:
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
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Another word for unearthly
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- Suggestive of ghosts or spirits, especially in being eerie or disturbing:
- Easily startled; skittish:
- frequented, inhabited, etc. by a ghost or ghosts
- Mysterious or impossible to explain, especially when causing uneasiness or astonishment.
- Of or resembling a specter; ghostly.
- Of, relating to, or produced by a spectrum.
- Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.
- Frightened or intimidated by superstition.
- Relating to or suggestive of Satan or evil.
- Profoundly cruel or evil; fiendish.
- Possessed, produced, or influenced by a demon:
- Of, resembling, or suggestive of a devil; fiendish:
- One who is or seems to be possessed by a demon.
- Strange or unearthly; eerie.
- Causing excitement, terror, or thrills.
- Malicious; evil.
- Mischievous, teasing, or annoying.
- Excessive; extreme:
- Of or relating to a funeral.
- Appropriate for or suggestive of a funeral; mournful:
- Of or relating to a burial vault or a receptacle for sacred relics.
- Suggestive of the grave; funereal.
- Causing consternation or dismay; frightful:
- Surpassing what is normal or usual; extraordinary:
- Transcending the natural or material order; supernatural.
- Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
- Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
- Of or relating to a deity.
- Of, relating to, or resembling a ghost, a wraith, or an apparition; spectral.
- Of or relating to the soul or spirit; spiritual.
- Of, relating to, or suggestive of a fiend; diabolical.
- Extremely wicked or cruel.
- Extremely bad, disagreeable, or difficult:
- Causing shock, revulsion, or horror; terrifying:
- Resembling a ghost; pale or pallid.
- Extremely unpleasant or bad:
- Of or pertaining to ghouls.
- Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
- Fascinated by corpses.
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