unearthly

4 definitions • 4 examples

An unearthly time is not at all convenient because it is too early in the morning or too late at night:

I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.

strange in a mysterious and sometimes frightening way:

Cats' cries have an unearthly quality.

strange and mysterious, and sometimes frightening:

The streetlights cast an unearthly glow in the thick fog.

infml If something happens at an unearthly hour, it happens at an unusual and unreasonable time:

I was awakened at some unearthly hour by a telephone call from Australia.