otherworldly
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7.8
- adjective
- /ˌʌðərˈwɜrldli/
- Literature
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sobrenatural
- The landscape was illuminated by an otherworldly light, making it look like a scene from a fantasy film.
- worldly and otherworldly
- otherworldly powers
- otherworldly spirituality
It's really otherworldly to hear this man sing.
- It's really otherworldly to hear this man sing.
- There's a beautiful line here of an otherworldly mechanism of rewards and punishments.
- It's not an otherworldly force trying to communicate something to me.
- And so the the screening process is otherworldly.
- So now that's been used historically to create this kind of otherworldly sound.
- And I put these characters in a situation and it's often diabolical and it's often otherworldly.
- Scott Jurek, I'm obviously, you know, incredible runner who've done these like epic races with this like like otherworldly focus.
- There's so much access into these otherworldly things that we just either take it and it's all crazy fictitious stuff.
Examples
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The image is so awesome and otherworldly that it is difficult to grasp what is being seen.
Fiction book (1990) -
How incredible the light is today, almost otherworldly, he thought, as he continued to stare ahead.
Fiction book (1996) -
Yes, that is absolutely otherworldly and incredible.
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It's really otherworldly to hear this man sing.
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It's got to mirror that otherworldly thing when you fall in love.
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After you left, I detected an otherworldly presence.
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But it was very mysterious, like we were seeing something otherworldly.
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I just can't believe how how really otherworldly this feels.
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Maybe that's why this feels so otherworldly.
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Anyway, what I'm saying is, to me, horror is something where there's something otherworldly going on.
Synonyms
685
4.1
From another place and not familiar there
207
2.3
Not known or familiar to you
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8.0
Coming from outside Earth or its atmosphere
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7.4
Strange or unusual in a way that surprises people
25
3.8
Strange in a way that seems caused by ghosts or spirits
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8.8
Very light and delicate in a way that seems heavenly
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8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
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7.7
Very strange and not like anything from this world
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9.6
Beyond the natural world and ordinary experience
5
7.7
In or from a place outside Earth, such as another planet
5
9.8
Very unusual in a way that seems beyond what is natural
1
9.8
Light and delicate with a feeling of something not physical
Not part of any real place or real life
A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling
Beyond the physical world and normal human experience
Beyond the moon and ordinary life, like something from another world
Not of this world and seeming like a dream
Strange and frightening in a way that seems supernatural
People or machines make it, not plants and animals
Antonyms
How Otherworldly
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6.7
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7.7
- Literature
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7.8
91
5.1
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2.3
798
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
otherworldly = otherworld (transparent) = otherworld + ly
Formed by the noun 'otherworld' + the productive suffix '-ly', yielding 'like or from another world', which learners can infer from the base.
Etymology
The word otherworldly comes from the simple words other ('different') and world ('a place'), so it helps you imagine something that is 'from another place'. That's why we call a voice, a light, or a feeling otherworldly when it seems strange, magical, or not part of ordinary life.