unterrestrial

English

Etymology

un- + terrestrial

Adjective

unterrestrial (comparative more unterrestrial, superlative most unterrestrial)

  1. Not terrestrial.
    • 1933, H. P. Lovecraft, The Horror in the Museum:
      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 []
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