Qualities

Synonyms for unearthly

The synonym for unearthly recorded in this bank is weird, in the sense "suggesting the operation of supernatural influences". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for unearthly

weirdadjective, in the sense "suggesting the operation of supernatural influences"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day unearthly is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences

He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

weird

Same sentence, swapped: He could hear the weird scream of some curlew piercing the din.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

extraterrestrial
righteous
phantom

Where unearthly turns up in the game

unearthly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where unearthly is the trap

godlyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is divine, in the sense "emanating from God", with unearthly sitting one tile away.

Play unearthly

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unearthly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

unearthly is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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