out of this world
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4.1
- idiom
- Informal
- The performance by the orchestra was truly out of this world.
- literally out of this world
- just out of this world
- truly out of this world
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Watch on YouTubeThe casting was just, you know, out of this world.
- The casting was just, you know, out of this world.
- The aroma that comes from them is out of this world.
- The pigmentation and sparkle is out of this world.
- They sound absolutely out of this world.
- The guy Penn Lindsay, the guy that created it is just out of this world.
- And it was just out of this world, the town.
- It's it's it's out of this world mind blowing.
Examples
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His coffee is okay, but his wine selection is out of this world!
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The coffee's hot, and the blue plate special is out of this world!
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This show is going to be out of this world!
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I love this one so so much and the bottle is just out of this world beautiful.
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I hear the huckleberry pie is out of this world.
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Made some out of this world beef stroganoff last night in the Instant Pot.
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Goat is very good; I know a couple of people who make out-of-this-world dishes with it.
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Wine, oysters, farms, incredible landscapes, and fresh produce that was out of this world.
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Natasha Denona's work on Instagram is out of this world amazing.
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The Siq is lit with 1,800 candles, and visitors say walking through it is an "out of this world" experience.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Causing great surprise and admiration
∞
3.5
Very surprising or hard to believe
∞
1.0
Very good and better than most similar things
891
1.9
Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased
746
3.8
Very unusual or much greater than usual
650
3.3
Very strong and often causing great damage
634
3.4
Causing people to admire it, like a building or performance, because it is very good
591
2.8
Unusual and easy to notice because it is different or surprising
289
3.5
Very impressive and exciting to look at
241
3.4
Much better than most others in skill or quality
159
4.1
Being much better than normal or usual
136
5.4
Very impressive and much better than normal
135
3.4
Very surprising and making you feel great wonder
97
5.3
Very large and surprising in a way that shocks you
92
4.1
So surprising and impressive that you feel amazed
69
4.1
Very unusual and special, not often seen
68
4.1
Not usual and different from what people expect
54
5.8
Very impressive and causing strong surprise
43
5.1
Very impressive and hard to believe
20
6.7
Very large or impressive in a way that amazes people
19
7.5
Very large or impressive in a way that surprises people
19
5.4
So wonderful or strange that words cannot show it
17
6.2
So beautiful or moving that you cannot describe it
13
4.6
Much better than you could imagine or hope for
11
7.9
Very good and impressive
3
2.8
Very impressive and exciting
3
4.2
So surprising that it seems hard to believe
1
4.1
Very impressive and making people feel amazed
1
7.7
So good that no one can do better
1
5.5
Very impressive and much better than you expect
Antonyms
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'extremely good / extraordinary' is directly inferable from combining 'out of' (meaning 'not from' or 'beyond') with 'this world' (the ordinary world): together they yield 'beyond the ordinary.' This metaphorical extension is predictable from the parts and is a cross-linguisticallyreachable image, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would likely grasp the intended meaning.
Etymology
Out of this world paints a picture of something so wonderful it seems out of this world, like it came from another planet. So saying something is out of this world means it is 'extremely good' or amazing.