Meaning of UNWORLDLY
| Pronunciation: | | un'wurldlee
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- [adj] 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
- [adj] not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney
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| | Synonyms: | | anchoritic, cloistered, cloistral, conventual, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical, monastic, monastical, naif, naive, spiritual, unearthly, unmercenary, unsophisticated |
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| | Antonyms: | | worldly | | |
| | See Also: | | pious | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Un*world"ly\, a.
Not worldly; spiritual; holy. --Hawthorne. --
{Un*world"li*ness}, n.
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