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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul;
- Example: "a spiritual approach to life"
- Example: "spiritual fulfillment"
- Example: "spiritual values"
- Example: "unearthly love"
[syn: spiritual, unearthly]

2. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;
- Example: "an eldritch screech"
- Example: "the three weird sisters"
- Example: "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy
- Example: "an unearthly light"
- Example: "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
[syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unearthly
    adj 1: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a
           spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment";
           "spiritual values"; "unearthly love" [syn: 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 [syn:
       eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly]