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UK
/ˈʌðəwˌɜːldli/
]
[ US /ˈəðɝˈwɝɫdɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈəðɝˈwɝɫdɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
find transcendental motives for sublunary action
How To Use otherworldly In A Sentence
- This gave the film an ethereal, otherworldly quality that drew critical praise and, again, commercial indifference.
- So here again we have her as that which is both of the body and outside of bodily experience, both in the world and otherworldly.
- My favorite imitator, the Hinckley columbine, is like a butter-yellow, otherworldly bird.
- From the beginning, the Protestant Reformers looked with disfavor on the contemplative life and on the quality of mystery that they designated ‘otherworldly.’
- Local red Tolosa beans appear in what Elena Arzak, Mr. Arzak's daughter and the restaurant's co-head chef, calls an "aperitif," an otherworldly broth served in a shot glass. Members Only (Most of the Time)
- Nor, perhaps, did they wish the supernatural to meld with the sexual, as otherworldly beings turned out to be alluring mortal women in flimsy garments. Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel
- That's interesting, because Louisiana's leading candidate for Governor, Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-Kenner), has previously written about his belief in otherworldly entities such as angels, spirits, demons and "related phenomena". Archive 2007-03-01
- It's an otherworldly site, fringed with dunes and studded with bone-white calcium carbonate spires called tufa towers.
- She does look quite 'otherworldly' - a good match for Matt S. OMG
- The "mystery" is in just how they combine diaphonic singing and dissonant harmonies to produce a breathtaking, otherworldly sound somewhere between the Muslim call to prayer and the Beach Boys. Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares – review