unworldly
2
8.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈwɜrldli/
:
ingenuo
- His unworldly perspective on life often leads him to overlook material concerns.
He stalks through the sugar cane fields looking for prey, tearing victims apart, drinking their blood and turning them into unworldly beasts as well.
- He stalks through the sugar cane fields looking for prey, tearing victims apart, drinking their blood and turning them into unworldly beasts as well.
Examples
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Madeline had been innocent, trusting, unworldly, a romantic.
Fiction book (2002) -
There was something ethereal in her beauty, I thought, and something delicate and unworldly in her manner.
Fiction book (1992) -
I thought you were an unworldly artist, and all you seem to do is worry about clothes!
Fiction book (1990) -
How unworldly and, dare I say it, human of me.
Fiction book (2001) -
Loyalty like that is simply unworldly, worthy almost of a saint.
Blog text (22) -
Your gentle Xanetia is an ethereal, unworldly sort of person, hardly more than a girl.
Fiction book (1993) -
Over the table hovered an atmosphere of patient, puzzled, unworldly disappointment.
Fiction book (1997) -
Students often used Indian play to challenge European American perceptions of Indians as inarticulate, naive, and unworldly.
Academic text (2008) -
The Englishman G. H. Hardy and the Hindu S. Ramanujan were both shy and unworldly.
Academic text (2002) -
His workmanlike demeanor belies an almost unworldly elegance of mathematical technique.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
36
7.8
Seeming to come from another world and very strange
10
4.7
A person who has little experience of the world and seems naive
Not doing things in a practical or realistic way
Not caring about money or social status
Antonyms
How Worldly
28
5.8
86
6.7
507
2.6
2
8.2
66
3.4
312
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unworldly comes from the prefix un- ('not') and world ('everyday life' or 'the things people care about'), so it literally means 'not of the world'. That's why we use it for someone who is not practical or not experienced in everyday matters, or who does not care about material things.