Meaning | not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations. |
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Example | "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney |
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Narrower | anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical | Characterized by ascetic solitude |
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cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical | Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows |
spiritual, unearthly | concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul |
unmercenary | not mercenary |
See also | naive, naif | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly / worldly experience |
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pious | Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity |
Opposite | worldly, secular, temporal | characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world |
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