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English Dictionary: unearthly by the DICT Development Group
2 results for unearthly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unearthly
adj
  1. concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
    Synonym(s): spiritual, unearthly
  2. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
    Synonym(s): eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unearthly \Un*earth"ly\, a.
      Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird;
      appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. --
      {Un*earth"li*ness}, n.
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