unearthly

unearthly
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. supernatural, uncanny, ghostly, spectral, eerie, weird, exceptional (inf.), unusual (inf.); appalling, hair-raising. See demon.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. ghoulish, frightening, ghastly, fiendish, ghostly, supernatural, preternatural, appalling, sepulchral, funereal, devilish, hair-raising, eldritch, demoniac, Satanic, eerie, spectral, uncanny, haunted, spooky.
Ant. common, familiar, homely.
See Synonym Study at weird .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
otherworldly, extraterrestrial, alien, out of this world, ethereal, heavenly, supernatural, extramundane, spiritual, ghostly, weird, strange, nightmarish, mysterious.
ANT.: earthly, mundane, terrestrial
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world: extramundane, extrasensory, metaphysical, miraculous, preternatural, superhuman, supernatural, superphysical, supersensible, transcendental. See SUPERNATURAL. 2. Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature: eerie, uncanny, weird. Informal: spooky. See FEAR, USUAL. 3. So senseless as to be laughable: absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, lunatic, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, zany. Informal: cockeyed, crazy, loony, loopy. Slang: balmy2, dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. Stability, knowledge.

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