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unearthly

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unearthly
adjective
1 there was an unearthly chill in that ghastly chamber:
otherworldly, not of this world, supernatural, preternatural, extraterrestrial, alien;
ghostly, spectral, phantom, mysterious, haunted, chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling;
uncanny, eerie, macabre, strange, weird, unnatural, bizarre;
Scottish eldritch;
informal spooky, creepy, scary;
rare phantasmal, phantasmic.
antonyms normal, mundane.
2 informal they rise at some unearthly hour for the long drive:
unreasonable, preposterous, abnormal, extraordinary, absurd, ridiculous, horrendous, outrageous, unheard of, out of the ordinary;
informal ungodly, unholy, godawful.
antonyms reasonable.