Unworldly

Definition: Unworldly

Unworldly

Adjective

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

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.

Date "unworldly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Synonym: Unworldly

Synonym: unsophisticated (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: worldly (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Probity	Supramundane, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unworldly

English words defined with "unworldly": superlunar, superlunary ♦ translunar, translunary ♦ unsophisticated. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Unworldly wise, as the owl remarked to the rabbit (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unworldly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unworldly" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	54	46,184

Language		Translations for "unworldly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jolaik, jo i kësaj bote. (various references)

Arabic		‏غير أرضي (unearthly), ‏ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gaga, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, innocent, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored), ‏روحي (ghostly, immaterial, incorporeal, inner, inward, mental, pneumatic, spiritual, unearthly). (various references)

Bulgarian		неопитен (callow, coltish, fresh, green, inexpert, maiden, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractised, unschooled, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untutored, unversed, verdant, young), неземен (ethereal, supermundane, unearthly, weird), не от този свят, не материалистичен, наивен (artless, fond, green, guileless, gullible, ingenuous, jejune, naпve, naif, silly, simple, undesigning, unsophisticated, untutored, wide-eyed), духовен (clerical, clerkly, ghostly, immaterial, inner, moral, noetic, otherworldly, platonic, spiritual, unfleshly). (various references)

Czech		prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, frugal, homely, naked, plain, rustic, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, vulgar), povznesený nad tento svìt, nezkušený (green, inexperienced, raw, unseasoned, unskillful), nezemský, nepožitkářský, nadpozemský (out of this world, unearthly), bezelstný (artless, dewy-eyed, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naïve, simple minded). (various references)

Farsi		غیردنیاءی , روحانی (Clergyman, Ethereal, Heavenly, Priest, Religious, Sacred). (various references)

French		spirituel, peu réaliste, naïf (unsophisticated), céleste. (various references)

German		unweltlich. (various references)

Greek		υπερκόσμιοσ (supernal, supramundane, ultramundane, unearthly). (various references)

Hebrew		רוח� י (mental, spiritual). (various references)

Hungarian		nem világias, átszellemült. (various references)

Italian		spirituale (ghostly, mental, spiritual). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		出世�"的 (religious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅっせけ�"てき (religious). (various references)

Pig Latin		orldlyunway

Portuguese		simples (artless, chaste, classic, classical, convenient, easy, frugal, green, guileless, homely, homespun, humble, ingenuous, innocent, inornate, matter-of-course, mere, modest, natural, onefold, outage, plain, primary, pure, regular, self-effacing, sheer, shirt-sleeve, simple, simple-hearted, single, singles, smattering, soft, sole, solitary, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, unlaboured, unostentatious, unsophisticated, unvarnished), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, crisp, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, neat, plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, virgin, virtuous), extraterrestre (earthling, extraterrestrial), espiritual (ghostly, immaterial, mental, spiritual), desinteressado (aloof, candid, devil-may-care, disinterested, indifferent, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, non-partisan, passive, unbiased, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unselfish). (various references)

Romanian		nelumesc. (various references)

Russian		не от мира сего (otherworldly, starry-eyed, supermundane), духовный (clerical, clerkly, ecclesiastical, ghostly, inward, moral, noetic, otherworldly, psychic, sacred, spiritual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neovozemaljski. (various references)

Spanish		poco mundano, espiritual (ghostly, inward, mental, otherworldly, spiritual). (various references)

Swedish		världsfrämmande (otherworldly). (various references)

Turkish		toy (beardless, callow, chicken, colt, dewy-eyed, green, greenhorn, inapt, inexperienced, naïve, punk, raw, runnynose, tenderfoot, verdant), saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, witless), ruhani (disembodied, ethereal, ghostlike, ghostly, hiero-, immaterial, psychic, spiritual), manevi (bodiless, ghostlike, ghostly, incorporeal, inner, intangible, moral, spiritual, unearthly), bu dünya ile ilgili olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian		неземний (aery, ambrosial, celestial, heavenly, sky-born, superlunary, supermundane, unearthly), духовний (clerical, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, inward, psychic, sacred, spiritual). (various references)

Vietnamese		thanh tao, không trần tục. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unworldly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unwordly, unworlddly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "unworldly" (pronounced 'Un*world"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-l-l-n-o-r-u-w-y"
	-2 letters: roundly, worldly.
	-3 letters: dourly, drolly, lordly, loudly, unroll.
	-4 letters: dolly, downy, dowry, droll, drown, dully, loury, lowly, round, rowdy, wordy, world, would, wound, yourn.
	-5 letters: doll, dory, dour, down, dull, duly, durn, duro, lord, lorn, lory, loud, lour, lown, luny, null, nurd, nurl, odyl, oldy, only, roll, ruly, rynd, undo, undy, wold, word, worn.
	Words containing the letters "d-l-l-n-o-r-u-w-y"
	+2 letters: wonderfully.
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