Word Meanings - UNEARTHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
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- SUPERNATURALNESS
The quality or state of being supernatural. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - EARTH FLAX
A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. - PRETERNATURALITY
Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith. - EARTHDIN
An earthquake. - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - SIGHTLY
1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place. - WEIRD
Fates, fr. weor to be, to become; akin to OS. wurd fate, OHG. wurt, 1. Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. 2. A spell or charm. Sir W. Scott. - EARTHSTAR
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. - EARTHBRED
Low; grovelling; vulgar. - WEIRDNESS
The quality or state of being weird. - EARTHBANK
A bank or mound of earth. - SUPERNATURAL
Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary - EARTHQUAVE
An earthquake. - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - SUPERNATURALISM
The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than - SIGHT-HOLE
A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak. - SOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude. - PRETERNATURALISM
The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition. - EARTHDRAKE
A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding. - PEEP SIGHT
An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight. - HIGH-SOUNDING
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. - RESOUND
resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame - HEREHENCE
From hence. - HALF-SIGHTED
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - HIGH-SIGHTED
Looking upward; supercilious. Shak. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.