Unworldly

Quick meaning: Unworldly is an adjective meaning Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.

Meaning

Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.

More Meanings

1. Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded.
2. Not belonging to this world; celestial.
3. Lacking sophistication.

Example Sentences

I am an aspiring theological writer-artist, Alien Christian Mystic, unworldly, contemplative.

‘But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.’

This creature from a higher world has not forgotten all that he knew before; he retains his unworldly talents and supreme intelligence.

Word Forms

• unworldlier
• unworldliest

Synonyms for unworldly

Depending on context, synonyms include otherworldly, naive, naif, cloistered, spiritual, unearthly.

Antonyms for unworldly

Common opposites include worldly, clog, geta, patten.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spiritual, anchoritic, monastical, conventual, cloistered, cloistral.

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