unworldly
adjEtymology From un- + worldly.
1
Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.
2
Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded.
- ‘But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.’1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II:
- I am an aspiring theological writer-artist, Alien Christian Mystic, unworldly, contemplative.1982 August 28, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 18:
3
Not belonging to this world; celestial.
- This creature from a higher world has not forgotten all that he knew before; he retains his unworldly talents and supreme intelligence.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 35:
4
Lacking sophistication.
- Derived terms
- unworldliness
- Related terms
- worldly