stygian unearthly
stygian
Origin: stygius, from Greek, from Styx river【冥河】 in ancient Greek stories which people cross over when they die]
= unpleasantly dark, and making you feel nervous or afraid
【the Stygian gloom】
【He ruminated upon his own hard fate — the meanness of man-kind — the burning wrongs, as he felt confident, of other times, Fortune’s inexorable persecution of his family, and the stygian gulf that deepened between him and the object of his love; and his soul darkened with a fierce despair, and with unshaped but evil thoughts that invited the tempter.】
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1.unearthly
You use unearthly to describe something that seems very strange and unnatural.
very strange; not natural and therefore frightening.
怪异的，非自然的
【For a few seconds we watched the unearthly lights on the water.】
【The sound was so serene that it seemed unearthly.】
【His eyes shone with an unearthly light.】
2.unearthly
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. 】
【I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.】
【unearthly hour/time etc 】
【The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.】
= ungodly
3.unearthly
An unearthly noise is unpleasant because it sounds frightening and unnatural.
【She heard the sirens scream their unearthly wail. 】
【an unearthly cry / yell 】
Origin: stygius, from Greek, from Styx river【冥河】 in ancient Greek stories which people cross over when they die]
= unpleasantly dark, and making you feel nervous or afraid
【the Stygian gloom】
【He ruminated upon his own hard fate — the meanness of man-kind — the burning wrongs, as he felt confident, of other times, Fortune’s inexorable persecution of his family, and the stygian gulf that deepened between him and the object of his love; and his soul darkened with a fierce despair, and with unshaped but evil thoughts that invited the tempter.】
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1.unearthly
You use unearthly to describe something that seems very strange and unnatural.
very strange; not natural and therefore frightening.
怪异的，非自然的
【For a few seconds we watched the unearthly lights on the water.】
【The sound was so serene that it seemed unearthly.】
【His eyes shone with an unearthly light.】
2.unearthly
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. 】
【I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.】
【unearthly hour/time etc 】
【The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.】
= ungodly
3.unearthly
An unearthly noise is unpleasant because it sounds frightening and unnatural.
【She heard the sirens scream their unearthly wail. 】
【an unearthly cry / yell 】
