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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations;
- Example: "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney

2. not wise in the ways of the world;
- Example: "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"
- Example: "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien
[syn: unsophisticated, unworldly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unworldly \Unworldly\
   See worldly.


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unworldly \Un*world"ly\, a.
   Not worldly; spiritual; holy. --Hawthorne. --
   Un*world"li*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unworldly
    adj 1: not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by
           mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not
           greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney [ant:
           secular, temporal, worldly]
    2: not wise in the ways of the world; "either too
       unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could
       deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien
       [syn: unsophisticated, unworldly]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

101 Moby Thesaurus words for "unworldly":
   Christlike, Christly, Elysian, God-fearing, Olympian, airy,
   angelic, arcane, artless, asomatous, astral, beatific, beatified,
   blessed, bodiless, celestial, daydreaming, daydreamy, decarnate,
   decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, eerie, esoteric, ethereal,
   extramundane, extraterrestrial, fey, from on high, ghostly,
   glorified, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, heavenly, holy,
   holy-minded, hypernormal, hyperphysical, immaterial, impalpable,
   imponderable, in glory, incorporate, incorporeal, ingenuous,
   insubstantial, intangible, mysterious, naive, nonmaterial,
   nonphysical, numinous, occult, otherworldly, paradisaic, paradisal,
   paradisiac, paradisic, phantom, preterhuman, preternatural,
   preternormal, pretersensual, psychic, pure, pure in heart,
   purehearted, righteous, saintlike, saintly, seraphic, shadowy,
   simple, spiritual, spiritual-minded, superhuman, supernal,
   supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible,
   supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, transcendental,
   transmundane, unaffected, unartificial, unearthly, unembodied,
   unextended, unfleshly, unhuman, unphysical, unschooled, unstudied,
   unsubstantial, untutored, visionary