at this unearthly hour
1unearthly hour — phrase a time of day, especially very early, that is not a reasonable time to speak to or see someone What are you doing here at this unearthly hour? Thesaurus: times in the evening or nighthyponym times in the morning or daytimehyponym happening …
2unearthly hour — a time of day, especially very early, that is not a reasonable time to speak to or see someone What are you doing here at this unearthly hour? …
3unearthly hour — absurdly early or inconvenient We got up at an unearthly hour this morning so we could get ready to go camping …
4at an unearthly hour — at an unearthly ˈhour idiom (informal) very early, especially when this is annoying • The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train. Main entry: ↑unearthlyidiom …
5hour — W1S1 [auə US aur] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(60 minutes)¦ 2¦(business/work etc)¦ 3 (work) long/regular etc hours 4¦(time of day)¦ 5¦(long time)¦ 6¦(o clock)¦ 7 1300/1530/1805 etc hours 8 by the hour/from hour to hour 9 lunch/din …
6hour — noun (C) 1 60 MINUTES a period of 60 minutes. There are 24 hours in a day: The flight to Moscow takes just over three hours. | Karen is paid $10 an hour. | in an hour/in an hour s time (=an hour from now): I ll be back in an hour. | an hour s… …
7unearthly — unearthliness, n. /un errth lee/, adj. 1. seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty. 2. supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird: an unearthly scream. 3. out of the ordinary; unreasonable or absurd: to get up at an… …
8hour — noun 1 period of sixty minutes ADJECTIVE ▪ full, solid ▪ I slept for eight solid hours. ▪ contact, credit (AmE) (both education) ▪ the …
9unearthly — /ʌnˈɜθli / (say un erthlee) adjective 1. not of this earth or world. 2. supernatural; ghostly; unnaturally strange; weird: an unearthly scream. 3. Colloquial unreasonable; absurd: to get up at an unearthly hour. –unearthliness, noun …
10un|earth|ly — «uhn URTH lee», adjective. 1. not of this world; supernatural: »an unearthly being. In after years, when she looked back upon them a kind of glory, a radiance as of an unearthly holiness, seemed to glow about these golden hours (Lytton Strachey) …
