unworldly
IPA: ʌnwˈɝɫdɫi
adjective
- Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.
- Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded.
- Not belonging to this world; celestial.
- Lacking sophistication.
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Examples of "unworldly" in Sentences
- She looked up at him with those unworldly eyes, and a chill swept him.
- I suppose you don't conduct business on what you call unworldly principles.
- "unworldly" and though the forms thereof in the two only partially coincide.
- I suppose you don't principles. business on what you call unworldly principles.
- Mr. Bloomfield bore himself with a kind of unworldly grace, and Mr.. Bloomfield with a kind of sweet primness.
- Careful about vocabulary. 'unworldly' means 'innocent' or 'naive', not 'unearthly' or 'otherworldly', which is what I think you intended to convey.
- It is argued by the proponents of the "big society" that an invasion of unworldly, civic-minded volunteers will, on the contrary, revive services made remote and sullen by the state.
- A separation of investment banking arms from retail operations may be the only way out of the current 'unworldly' situation where taxpayers have to pick up the tab when institutions get into trouble, said King.
- In fact, so important is this way of thinking to our lives, so powerful is it, and so strange - just think about it for a moment, it really is a most "unworldly" and unnatural, somewhat stilted way of thinking - that it surely must be taught to every living person.
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