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unworldly adjective [ ʌnˈwəːldli ]

• (of a person) having little awareness of the practicalities of life; unmotivated by material considerations.
• "a pedantic, unworldly boffin"
Similar: naive, simple, inexperienced, innocent, green, raw, callow, immature, uninitiated, natural, unaffected, unsophisticated, gullible, born yesterday, ingenuous, artless, guileless, childlike, trusting, credulous, idealistic, non-materialistic, non-material, immaterial, spiritual, spiritualistic, religious,
• not seeming to belong to this planet; strange.
• "an almost unworldly stillness"
Similar: unearthly, other-worldly, extraterrestrial, ethereal, ghostly, spectral, phantom, preternatural, supernatural, paranormal, mystical, transcendent, numinous, extramundane,


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