Definition of "unworldly"

unworldly

adjective
comparative unworldlier, superlative unworldliest
1. Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.
2. Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded.
  Quotations
  ‘But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.’
  1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book II, chapter 17
3. Not belonging to this world; celestial.
  Quotations
  This creature from a higher world has not forgotten all that he knew before; he retains his unworldly talents and supreme intelligence.
  1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 35
4. Lacking sophistication.