emphasis If you refer to a time as an unearthly hour, you are emphasizing that it is very early in the morning. They arranged to meet in Riverside Park at the unearthly hour of seven in the morning. = ungodly
{s} not appearing to be of this world, extraterrestrial, supernatural, mysterious; unreasonable, outrageous
You use unearthly to describe something that seems very strange and unnatural. For a few seconds we watched the unearthly lights on the water The sound was so serene that it seemed unearthly
suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
An unearthly noise is unpleasant because it sounds frightening and unnatural. She heard the sirens scream their unearthly wail
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound
concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
If someone unearths facts or evidence about something bad, they discover them with difficulty, usually because they were being kept secret or were being lied about. Researchers have unearthed documents indicating her responsibility for the forced adoption of children = uncover
If you say that someone has unearthed something, you mean that they have found it after it had been hidden or lost for some time. From somewhere, he had unearthed a black silk suit = dig out
If someone unearths something that is buried, they find it by digging in the ground. Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old