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[ UK /ʌnwˈɜːldli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations
    was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards
  2. not wise in the ways of the world
    this helplessly unworldly woman
    either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver

How To Use unworldly In A Sentence

  • There is also a homely, unworldly duo, Mitch and Mickey, played by Catherine O'Hara and Levy: a pair deeply traumatised by their unspoken, unconsummated love for each other.
  • Freedom from habit or formula. Escape from daily routine or the ordinary. Unworldly. Transcending the conventional.
  • Critics say he is too unworldly even to understand the hurt he has caused Maori.
  • Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
  • The absence of a World Series ring is the last, the only blemish on a career that has climbed from the exceptional to the unworldly.
  • To portray him out of context could make him appear naive and unworldly.
  • Despite her independence and academic brilliance, she is naive and unworldly and her choices are terrifying.
  • He did not know where he was, but despite his strange surroundings and the unworldly heat and glaze, he could tell he was still in a prison.
  • The colours of their canoes and clothes were softened by the dim air and long use, and there seemed to accompany each boat and each person an atmosphere within this other haze, a spiritual kind of exhalation; so that one might have thought them, with the crucifixes on their breasts, and that unworldly, distinguished look which comes to those who live much with nature, as sons of men going upon such mission as did they who went into the far land with Arthur. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • The darkness was unworldly, he thought; objects blurred into each other, colors shifted to become unnatural.
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