Unearthly

Definition: Unearthly

Unearthly

Adjective

1. Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love".

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.

Date "unearthly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Unearthly

Synonyms: eldritch (adj), spiritual (adj), uncanny (adj), weird (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deity	Superhuman, supernatural; ghostly, spiritual, hyperphysical, unearthly; theistic, theocratic; anointed; soterial.
Demon	Adjective: demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal; fiendish, fiend-like; supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral; ghostly, ghost-like; elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike; haunted; pokerish.
Heaven	Adjective: heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian.
Immateriality	Adjective: immaterial, immateriate; incorporeal, incorporal; incorporate, unfleshly; supersensible; asomatous, unextended; unembodied, disembodied; extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic; spiritual. (psychical).
Piety	Elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unearthly

English words defined with "unearthly": eldritch ♦ uncanny ♦ weird. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unearthly": Owl ♦ Rabicano. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland. (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn) Jane, you're a strange and almost unearthly thing. (Jane Eyre; writing credit: Hugh Whitemore)
Movie/TV Titles	Unearthly Stranger (1963) The Unearthly (1957)
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Domain	Title
Books	A Garden of Unearthly Delights: Bioengineering and the Future of Food (reference) Haunted Louisiana: True Tales of Ghosts and Other Unearthly Creatures (reference) In the Garden of Unearthly Delights: The Paintings of Josh Kirby (reference) Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love (reference) Love's Unearthly Power (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Unearthly (reference) Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child (reference) Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Unearthly (reference) Unearthly (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	In the Fall of Unearthly Angels (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Spooky; chilling, creepy, eerie, ghostly, mysterious, ominous, scary, spine-chilling, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, weird; fright.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unearthly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unearthly" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	74	38,813

Expressions using "unearthly": unearthly hour ♦ unearthly pallor. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "unearthly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i mbinatyrshëm (eldritch, magic, magical, miraculous, preternatural, supernatural), i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, veiled). (various references)

Arabic		‏مثالي (exemplary, ideal, idealistic, model, perfect, platonic, starry eyed, typical, utopian, visionary), ‏غير أرضي (unworldly), ‏غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), ‏سماوي (angelic, celestial, divine, empyreal, heavenly), ‏خارق للطبيعة (metaphysical, preternatural, uncanny), ‏روحي (ghostly, immaterial, incorporeal, inner, inward, mental, pneumatic, spiritual, unworldly). (various references)

Bulgarian		страхотен (awesome, devilish, direful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, morbid, tremendous), свръхестествен (eerie, hyperphysical, metaphysical, miraculous, occult, preternatural, spiritual, supernatural, supersensible, transcendental, uncanny, unnatural, weird), тайнствен (cabbalistic, eerie, eery, impenetrable, mysterious, mystic, orphic, uncanny, unsearchable), нечовешки (inhuman, subhuman, unhuman), неземен (ethereal, supermundane, unworldly, weird), призрачен (dreamy, ghostly, phantasmal, shadowy, spectral, spooky, unsubstantial, visionary). (various references)

Czech		strašidelný (creepy, frightening, ghostly, haunted, haunting, macabre, scary, spectral, spooky), nelidský (fell, fiendish, inhuman, subhuman), neklidný (bumpy, choppy, disturbed, fitful, restive, restless, uneasy, unresting), nadpozemský (out of this world, unworldly), nadpřirozený (preternatural, supernatural, weird), dìsný (awful, dreadful, fearsome, great, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-rising, hairy, horrid, lurid, macabre, unholy). (various references)

Farsi		غیرزمینی , عجیب وغریب (Exotic, Odd, Oddball, Outlandish, Peculiar, Queer, Quizzical, Rum, Screwy). (various references)

French		surnaturel, sinistre, mystérieux (uncanny). (various references)

German		unheimlich (creepy, eerie, ever so, ever such, frightening, immensely, impossibly, incredibly, scary, sinister, spooky, terribly, tremendous, uncannily, uncanny, weird). (various references)

Greek		υπερκόσμιοσ (supernal, supramundane, ultramundane, unworldly), υπερφυσικόσ (preternatural, supernatural, transcendental), αφύσικοσ (abnormal, absonant, constrained, freakish, uncanny, unnatural). (various references)

Hebrew		מסתורי (arcane, enigmatic, mysterious, mystic, occult). (various references)

Hungarian		földöntúli (empyrean, ethereal, extramundane, superlunary, supermundane). (various references)

Italian		spettrale (ghostlike, ghostly, phantom, spectral, unreal), soprannaturale (eerie, supernatural, weird), sinistro (grim, left, sinister, spooky), non terreno, misterioso (abstruse, cryptic, eerie, enigmatic, mysterious, occult, secret, suspect, suspicious, weird), impossibile (impossible, out of the question, unable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		妖気 (ghostly, weird). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ようき (cheerfulness, container, ghostly, instrument, season, tool, vessel, weather, weird). (various references)

Manx		neuheihllt. (various references)

Pig Latin		earthlyunay

Portuguese		sublime (divine, grand, lofty, lovely, sublime), que não é deste mundo, não terreno, celeste (celestial, heavenly, sky-ey, supernal). (various references)

Romanian		supranatural (miraculous, occult, preternatural, supernatural, weird), superb (first rate, grandiose, noble, splendid, stately, superb, superbly), straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, odd, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, weird, whimsical), nepãmântesc, mãreţ (aerial, August, brilliant, grand, grandiose, kingly, loftily, lofty, magnificent, magnificently, majestic, mighty, palatial, princely, proud, splendid, stately, sumptuous), imposibil (absurd, extravagant, impossible, insolubly, it's no go, never, not really, out of the question, unbearable, unfeasible), înspãimântãtor (appalling, awsome, dread, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, horrible, horrid, howling, terrible, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

Russian		неземной (ambrosial, empyreal, seraphic, superlunary, supermundane). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		natprirodan (supernatural), nadzemaljski (otherworldly, superlunary, supermundane). (various references)

Spanish		sobrenatural (occult, supernatural, weird). (various references)

Swedish		otäck (beastly, filthy, hidecous, hideous, horrid, nasty, ugly, wicked, wickedness), kuslig (creepy, dismal, eerie, eery, ghastly, gloomy, grisly, gruesome, lurid, macabre, uncanny, weird), överjordisk. (various references)

Turkish		tüyler ürpertici (bloodcurdling, crawly, dreadfull, eerie, eery, formidable, grisly, hair raising, haircurling, shivery), olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific), manevi (bodiless, ghostlike, ghostly, incorporeal, inner, intangible, moral, spiritual, unworldly), doğaüstü (metaphysical, occult, preternatural, supernatural, superphysical). (various references)

Ukrainian		та�"мничий (cabbalistic, cryptic, eldritch, esoteric, mysterious, mystical, occult, orphean, orphic, secretive, weird), неземний (aery, ambrosial, celestial, heavenly, sky-born, superlunary, supermundane, unworldly), непідхожий (ill timed, improper, inadequate, inapposite, inapt, inconvenient, inept, naughty, unbecoming, unchristian, undesirable, undue, unmeet, unsuitable, untoward, unworthy). (various references)

Vietnamese		siêu tự nhiên (supernatural), siêu ph� m (divine, heavenly, nature, superhuman, supermundane), phi thường kỳ dị. (various references)

Welsh		annaearol (weird). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unearthly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unearthy, uneathly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unearthly" (pronounced uner"thlē)
4	-er" th l ē	earthly.
3	-th l ē	bimonthly, blithely, deathly, fourthly, monthly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-n-r-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: earthly, enthral, haunter, lathery, luthern, neutral, unearth, urethan.
	-3 letters: anther, antler, auntly, earthy, eluant, elytra, haleru, halter, hantle, hauler, hearty, hunter, hurley, hurtle, hyetal, lather, learnt, lunate, lyrate, nature, nearly, neatly, neural, realty, rental, runlet, thaler, thenal, thenar, unreal, uranyl.
	-4 letters: alert, alter, antre, artel, aunty, early, earth, entry, ethyl, haler, hater, haunt.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-n-r-t-u-y"
	+3 letters: polyurethane, unhysterical.
	+4 letters: polyurethanes.
	+5 letters: methoxyflurane, neuropathology, phenylthiourea, unhysterically.
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