Other-worldly

Quick meaning: Other-worldly is an adjective meaning Alternative form of otherworldly.

Meaning

Alternative form of otherworldly.

Example Sentences

[Leo] Tolstoy was not a saint, but he tried very hard to make himself into a saint, and the standards he applied to literature were other-worldly ones.

Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not other-worldly, must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.

He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost other-worldly, with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices, under the distant drone of that sky-hornet threshing along to Hendon.

It is easy with the other-worldly gifts to be a schöne Seele [beautiful soul]; but to the large vision of [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe that seemed to be a phase of life that a man might feel all round and leave behind him.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include extra-planetary, off-world, worldly wise, heav'nly, worldlywise, extra-solar.

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