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unearthly

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: balmy 2, dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ability, knowledge

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