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English adjective: unworldly

1. unworldly not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations


SamplesWas unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards.


Similaranchoritic, cloistered, cloistral, conventual, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical, monastic, monastical, spiritual, unearthly, unmercenary


See alsonaif, naive, pious


Antonymsworldly, secular, temporal

2. unworldly not wise in the ways of the world


SamplesEither too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver.
This helplessly unworldly woman.


Synonymsunsophisticated


Similarnaif, naive


Antonymssophisticated









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