unworldly as an adjective: - 1
- 2
jump to corresponding sense entry
unworldly
adjective
1 unworldly
Not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations.
Roget 939:
upright;
honest,
honest as daylight;
veracious
etc.
543;
virtuous
etc.
944;
honorable;
fair,
right,
just,
equitable,
impartial,
evenhanded,
square;
fair and aboveboard,
open and aboveboard;
white [U.S.].
constant,
constant as the northern star;
faithful,
loyal,
staunch;
true,
true blue,
true to one's colors,
true to the core,
true as the needle to the pole;
marble-constant"
[Antony and Cleopatra];
true-hearted,
trusty,
trustworthy;
as good as one's word,
to be depended on,
incorruptible.
straightforward
etc.
(ingenuous)
703;
frank,
candid,
open-hearted.
conscientious,
tender-conscienced,
right-minded;
high-principled,
high-minded;
scrupulous,
religious,
strict;
nice,
punctilious,
correct,
punctual;
respectable,
reputable;
gentlemanlike†.
inviolable,
inviolate;
unviolated†,
unbroken,
unbetrayed;
unbought,
unbribed†.
innocent
etc.
946;
pure,
stainless;
unstained,
untarnished,
unsullied,
untainted,
unperjured†;
uncorrupt,
uncorrupted;
undefiled,
undepraved†,
undebauched†;
integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat.]
[Horace];
justus et tenax propositi [Lat.]
[Horace].
chivalrous,
jealous of honor,
sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.];
high-spirited.
supramundane†,
unworldly,
other-worldly,
overscrupulous†.
... show more
2 unworldly
Not wise in the ways of the world:
— This helplessly unworldly woman.
synonym: unsophisticated.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
debug info: 0.0185