'Unearthly' definitions:
Definition of 'unearthly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love" [syn: spiritual, unearthly]
adjective
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 [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly]
Definition of 'Unearthly'
From: GCIDE
- Unearthly \Un*earth"ly\, a. Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- {Un*earth"li*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unearthly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- airy,
- angelic,
- arcane,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- balmy,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- beyond belief,
- bizarre,
- blessed,
- blue,
- bodiless,
- cadaverous,
- celestial,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- corpselike,
- crazy,
- creepy,
- curious,
- deadly,
- deathlike,
- deathly,
- deathly pale,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- eccentric,
- eerie,
- eldritch,
- Elysian,
- esoteric,
- ethereal,
- extramundane,
- extraordinary,
- extrasensory,
- extraterrestrial,
- fantastic,
- fey,
- freaked out,
- freaky,
- from on high,
- funny,
- ghastly,
- ghostlike,
- ghostly,
- glorified,
- God-fearing,
- godlike,
- godly,
- godly-minded,
- good,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- haggard,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- heavenly,
- holy,
- holy-minded,
- hypernormal,
- hyperphysical,
- immaterial,
- impalpable,
- implausible,
- imponderable,
- in glory,
- inconceivable,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- incredible,
- insane,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- kooky,
- livid,
- loony,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- miraculous,
- mortuary,
- mysterious,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- not deserving belief,
- numinous,
- occult,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- Olympian,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- otherworldly,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- pale,
- paradisaic,
- paradisal,
- paradisiac,
- paradisic,
- passing belief,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- phantom,
- preposterous,
- preterhuman,
- preternatural,
- preternormal,
- pretersensual,
- problematic,
- psychic,
- psychical,
- pure,
- pure in heart,
- purehearted,
- quaint,
- queer,
- questionable,
- ridiculous,
- righteous,
- saintlike,
- saintly,
- seraphic,
- shadowy,
- silly,
- singular,
- spectral,
- spiritual,
- spiritual-minded,
- spookish,
- spooky,
- staggering belief,
- strange,
- sublime,
- superhuman,
- superior,
- supermundane,
- supernal,
- supernatural,
- supernormal,
- superphysical,
- supersensible,
- supersensory,
- supersensual,
- supramundane,
- supranatural,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- unbelievable,
- uncanny,
- unconvincing,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfleshly,
- ungodly,
- unheard-of,
- unhuman,
- unimaginable,
- unnatural,
- unphysical,
- unreal,
- unreasonable,
- unsubstantial,
- unthinkable,
- unusual,
- unworldly,
- unworthy of belief,
- wacky,
- wan,
- weird,
- wondrous strange