- very strange; not natural and therefore frightening
- an unearthly cry
- an unearthly light
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUnearthly is used with these nouns:- hour
- howl
Idioms
See unearthly in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryat an unearthly hour
- (informal) very early, especially when this is annoying
- The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
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