Meanings
adjectiveunterrestrial (comparative more unterrestrial, superlative most unterrestrial)
comparative more unterrestrial · superlative most unterrestrial
- Not terrestrial.
Every object that might have been familiar was seen to be part of something vague and unknown and altogether unterrestrial — something infinitely vaster than any human eye could grasp, and infinitely alien, monstrous, and hideous […]
1933, H. P. Lovecraft, The Horror in the Museum
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