unearthly

adjective5

1. •
   Not of the earth; nonterrestrial.

   • They were, I now saw, the most unearthly creatures it is possible to conceive. — 1898
2. •
   (figurative) Preternatural or supernatural.

   • I believe that we are the last human beings who will ever see that unearthly sight. — 1886
3. •
   (figurative) Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.

   • I then set out to survey the town in the self-same palankeen. The houses had all of them an unearthly appearance, by no means consonant to our ideas of Oriental splendor. — 1819
4. •
   (figurative) Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.

   • I see my boys all wearing the same unearthly trousers, the same hair cuts, garish ties and sweaters, all rolling their socks and entertaining the same crazy notions about everything. — 1927
5. •
   (figurative) Ideal beyond the mundane.

   • By the late sixteenth century Elizabeth had become the icon-like Virgin Queen of legend, an image created, to a large extent, by her extraordinary, unearthly costume and appearance. — 2000