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[ uhn-wurld-lee ] / ʌnˈwɜrld li / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unworldly ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot worldly; not seeking material advantage; spiritually minded. naive; unsophisticated; provincial. not terrestrial; unearthly. Origin of unworldlyFirst recorded in 1700–10; un-1 + worldly OTHER WORDS FROM unworldlyun·world·li·ness, nounWords nearby unworldlyunwitting, unwittingly, unwitty, unwonted, unworkable, unworldly, unworried, unworthy, unwound, unwrap, unwreathe Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unworldlyOnly the unworldly could still think this was, at its worst, only an unseemly platonic relationship rather than a serious bonding. Queen Victoria’s Secret Scottish Sex Castle|Clive Irving|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST When she arrived at the academy, Fernandez was 17 and, Sousa told me, a shy, unworldly country girl. Hugo and the Hottie|Bryan Curtis|October 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST But just because her husband was so unworldly, so unpractical, Charlotte's own more everyday nature began to reassert itself. How It All Came Round|L. T. Meade Neither with the worldly nor the unworldly woman could the ladies do anything. Evan Harrington, Complete|George Meredith
There were also, for such a romantic, unworldly boy as Jean-Pierre, all the variations on the Camille theme. Rough-Hewn|Dorothy Canfield Many people would have said that he was laughing on the wrong side of his mouth: the worldly never can understand the unworldly. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, No. 97, January, 1876|Various The other Sunday night, Mr. Harris was very spiritual, at any rate, very impractical and unworldly. About London|J. Ewing Ritchie
British Dictionary definitions for unworldly
adjectivenot concerned with material values or pursuits lacking sophistication; naive not of this earth or world Derived forms of unworldlyunworldliness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unworldlyabstract, astral, celestial, daydreaming, dreamy, ethereal, extraterrestrial, fantastic, incorporeal, metaphysical, otherworldly, religious, transcendental, unearthly, unreal, visionary, nonmaterialistic, supersensory, artless, clean |