What's the difference between otherworldly and unworldly?

Otherworldly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
  • (2) It makes us believe that mental illness is something otherworldly.
  • (3) A veteran Westminster player, he lives in Salisbury, not London, most of the week, in the same otherworldly cathedral quarter as the former residence of Edward Heath.
  • (4) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
  • (5) But the price paid for Autonomy was otherworldly – it smacked of a management team that was too anxious to make a hardware-for-software switch.
  • (6) Croatia, Morocco and Iceland also provide otherworldly backdrops to the backstabbing and bribery of Westeros and beyond.
  • (7) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
  • (8) "Of all the sites, it was the most depressing and slightly sordid," she says, "while other places often had an air of melancholy or seemed slightly otherworldly at dawn.
  • (9) He has suffered from alopecia - hair loss - since childhood, and his otherworldly air is heightened by an eerie lack of eyebrows.
  • (10) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
  • (11) I can only vouch for the R&R to be found in its calm, otherworldly landscape.
  • (12) She doesn’t date, is a vegan, sleeps very little, quotes Jane Austen by heart, works nonstop, dresses like Steve Jobs and as the New Yorker helpfully informs us: “several times a day she drinks a pulverized concoction of cucumber, parsley, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce and celery.” She sounds like someone who is tremendously fun to have at Scrabble night, and absolutely otherworldly … in fact, she sounds like a unicorn.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘An extraordinary, alien, otherworldly creature’: David Bowie 1947-2016 - video tribute After a 1962 schoolyard punch-up, the pupil in David’s left eye remained permanently dilated, having the serendipitous effect of lending him a vaguely unearthly appearance (the thrower of the punch, George Underwood , remained a close friend and later designed Bowie’s album artwork).
  • (14) The shaman sings these ancient South American chants and shakes this palm branch, and it sounds crazy-otherworldly.” Ayahuasca has gained something of a cult reputation among celebrities from Sting and Paul Simon to Lindsay Lohan and the Klaxons, though it remains illegal, and its implication in the death of a British teenager in Colombia earlier this year has cast a shadow over the rapturous accounts made by some of those who have tried it.
  • (15) In the first, St Matthew and his fellow taxmen, all in contemporary dress, are sitting at a table in a darkened room when Christ enters and, pointing (in a gesture taken from Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling), calls on him to join the church: at this moment of revelation the startled Matthew is spotlit by a diagonal shaft of otherworldly light.
  • (16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
  • (17) Residents say they never tire of gazing at the city centre's sublime, otherworldly architecture.
  • (18) "The TV shows are so good, so intriguing, that it's almost otherworldly."
  • (19) These have an otherworldly feel to them, as if formed by a giant poking his rough fingers deep into the island from above in a misguided mission to supply its inhabitants with swimming pools.
  • (20) It begins in an abyss of double-bass sonority, and builds to a screaming, discombobulating climax of mind-bending power; then there's a quieter, otherworldly section, before the terror of the first section returns.

Unworldly


Definition:

  • (a.) Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Honeychile Rider is even more unworldly, depicted in Dr No as part intuitive animal, part innocent child.
  • (2) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
  • (3) After all, they had a stating pitcher rotation that featured Pedro Martinez, only a few years removed from the most dominant stretches any starting pitcher has had in baseball history, and a newly signed Curt Schilling, who was second only to an unworldly Johann Santana in that year's Cy Young voting.
  • (4) With the potential to provide an estimated 5% of the UK's electricity , it's a challenge which has drawn generations of inventive minds, only too keen to get stuck into the public debate before the sheer enormity of the problems – technical, political and environmental – push it to back to the realm of unworldly pipedream for another generation.
  • (5) There is, nevertheless, something unworldly about him.
  • (6) How could anyone, cut off from the rest of humanity for more that a quarter of a century, be anything but unworldly, particularly in the handling of money?
  • (7) The editor admitted that part of the reason for the scandal was that he and almost all his senior executives were so hopelessly unworldly about the city’s large African-American population that they could not judge the veracity of Cooke’s article.
  • (8) Although highly cerebral, Letwin is regarded as slightly unworldly and his dealings with the media have not always worked out well.
  • (9) With this as his stake money, he parlayed his way into a takeover of the Golden Nugget casino, then in old, unworldly hands.
  • (10) Glasman, who lives with his wife and four children in a crowded flat over a clothes shop in Stoke Newington in north London – his title is Baron Glasman of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill – looked every inch the unworldly academic when he was ennobled.
  • (11) He said that although the Doha group were in some ways forward-thinking, they were also often unworldly and simplistic.
  • (12) Surely someone like Emily Brontë , whose stock market investments on her family's behalf belie her unworldly image, or George Eliot , with her appetite for large advances and interest in Germany, might be a more business-friendly choice of novelist?
  • (13) "Anyone who proposed giving government guarantees to retail depositors and other creditors, and then suggested that such funding could be used to finance highly risky and speculative activities, would be thought rather unworldly.