Usually means: Not of this world; supernatural.
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  1. unearthly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unearthly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unearthly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unearthly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unearthly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unearthly, unearthly: Wordnik
  7. unearthly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unearthly: Wiktionary
  9. unearthly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unearthly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unearthly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unearthly: Dictionary.com
  13. unearthly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unearthly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Unearthly, Unearthly (manga), Unearthly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Unearthly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unearthly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unearthly: Rhymezone
  19. unearthly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unearthly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unearthly: Free Dictionary
  22. unearthly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unearthly: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. unearthly: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Not of the earth; non-terrestrial.
▸ adjective:  Preternatural or supernatural.
▸ adjective:  Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
▸ adjective:  Ideal beyond the mundane.
▸ adjective:  Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.

Similar:
weird, supernatural, uncanny, unworldly, eldritch, spiritual, nonearthly, earthless, nonterrestrial, otherworldly, more...

Opposite:
earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly

Phrases:
unearthly hour, An Unearthly Child, unearthly glow, unearthly insanity, more...

Colors:
    pale lavender,     eerie black,     phantom gray,     celestial silver,     enchanted emerald, more...


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Similar:
weird, supernatural, uncanny, unworldly, eldritch, spiritual, nonearthly, earthless, nonterrestrial, otherworldly, more...

Opposite:
earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly

Phrases:
unearthly hour, An Unearthly Child, unearthly glow, unearthly insanity, more...

Colors:
    pale lavender,     eerie black,     phantom gray,     celestial silver,     enchanted emerald, more...



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