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unworldly

[ uhn-wurld-lee ]

/ ʌnˈwɜrld li /

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adjective

not worldly; not seeking material advantage; spiritually minded.

naive; unsophisticated; provincial.

not terrestrial; unearthly.

Origin of unworldly

First recorded in 1700–10; un-¹ + worldly

OTHER WORDS FROM unworldly

un·world·li·ness, noun

Words nearby unworldly

unwitnessed, unwitting, unwitty, unwonted, unworkable, unworldly, unworried, unworthy, unwound, unwrap, unwreathe

Example sentences from the Web for unworldly

Only 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

unworldly

/ (ʌnˈwɜːldlɪ) /

adjective

not concerned with material values or pursuits

lacking sophistication; naive

not of this earth or world

Derived forms of unworldly

unworldliness, noun