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Another word for unearthly

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Adjective

  1. Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world

    See also:

    supernatural

  2. Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature

    See also:

    usual

    fear

  3. So senseless as to be laughable

    See also:

    knowledge

    ability

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Another word for unearthly

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Sentence Examples

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

  • The unearthly shrill of the telephone shattered the scene, once, twice, three times before Dean clawed at the instrument and grumbled something.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The extreme length of the limbs and the absence of a tail are other features of these small apes, which are thoroughly arboreal in their habits, and make the woods resound with their unearthly cries at night.

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