otherworldly
pronunciation
How to pronounce otherworldly in British English:
UK ['ʌðə'wɜ:ldlɪ]
How to pronounce otherworldly in American English:
US [ˌʌðɚˈwəldli]
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- Adjective:
- existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
Word Origin
- otherworldly (adj.)
- 1854, from other + world + -ly (1). Otherworldliness is recorded from 1819. Phrase other world "world of idealism or fantasy, afterlife, spirit-land" is c. 1200.
Example
- 1. Swimming among these graceful sea creatures is a truly otherworldly experience .
- 2. My work investigates issues of urbanity , modernity , progress and the otherworldly .
- 3. I feel like he is my soul mate and we connect on an otherworldly level .
- 4. Between jesus and some spiritual or otherworldly power ?
- 5. But they also explained that they were reminding the public of what was often forgotten in japan 's subculture : that the nuclear threat was real , not a figment of an otherworldly imagination .