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unearthly
adjective as in supernatural; very strange
Weak matches
- abnormal
- absurd
- appalling
- demoniac
- devilish
- eerie
- ethereal
- extraordinary
- fiendish
- frightening
- funereal
- ghastly
- ghostly
- ghoulish
- hair-raising
- haunted
- heavenly
- hyperphysical
- miraculous
- nightmarish
- not of this world
- phantom
- preternatural
- ridiculous
- scary
- sepulchral
- spectral
- spooky
- sublime
- superhuman
- uncanny
- ungodly
- unholy
- unreasonable
- weird
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Example Sentences
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That makes the Palisades fire all the more unearthly.
From Los Angeles Times
“It was going to be almost a vocal earthwork,” said Aitken, who tends to think and speak in floating, unearthly concepts.
From Los Angeles Times
I may have dozed just lightly when an unearthly moan jarred me awake.
From Literature
They did not leave disappointed as the sun shrank to a crescent-like sliver of light that cast an unearthly pale gloom over the city.
From BBC
That led to a weekslong hunt and an even longer court battle over an unusual question: Who owns an unearthly object that falls to Earth?
From New York Times
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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