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# unearthly

«unearthly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Strange and eerie, as if it belonged to a world other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Strange and eerie, as if it belonged to a world other than ours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unearthly/#m1)

2) (informal) Very early or very late: at an unearthly hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unearthly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, sounds, lights or powers from ghosts, fairies or spirits

### examples

- An unearthly howl came from the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unearthly/#x1)
- The maiden's eyes shone with an unearthly light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unearthly/#x2)
- Why are you up at this unearthly hour? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unearthly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unearthly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unearthly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.