other-worldlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Further reading

• “other-worldly, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

別の表記

• other-worldly

語源

From other world (“a world beyond death; a world other than the everyday world”) +‎ -ly (suffix meaning having the likeness of, resembling forming adjectives).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌʌðəˈwɜːldli/
• (General American) enPR: ŭth'ər-wûrldʹli, IPA: /ˌʌðəɹˈwɜɹl(d)li/, /ˌʌðəɹˈwɜɹəl(d)li/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)ldli
• ハイフネーション: other‧world‧ly

形容詞

otherworldly (comparative more otherworldly, superlative most otherworldly)

1. Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a world different from the tangible world, especially a fantasy, imaginary, or mystical world.

   Synonyms: ethereal, transcendental, unworldly

   Coordinate term: offworld

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, “Everywhere in Trains”, in Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, paperback edition, London: Profile Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 160:

     In Just My Type: A Book about Fonts (2010) Simon Garfield describes [Edward] Johnston as 'a gaunt fine-boned man with a full moustache', and there's a picture of him at work with a quill pen that makes him look as other-worldly as a medieval sprite.

   • 2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2025:

     The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

   1. (figurative) Odd and unfamiliar; strange, uncanny, weird.

      Synonyms: alien, other-worldish

      • 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter VII, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC, part III, 1 §, page 285:

        He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost other-worldly, with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices, under the distant drone of that sky-hornet threshing along to Hendon.

      • 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, it’s not hard to be humble in an effort to regain power”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 September 2025:

        An almost otherworldly resilience has characterized the 40-year arc of the Clintons' political lives, a well-documented pattern of dazzling success, shattering setback and inevitable recovery.

      • 2021 July 11, Nick Rutherford, “Rickdependence Spray” (1:10 from the start), in Rick and Morty‎, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland):

        "Hey, Rick." / "Oh, hey, kiddo. How's your Saturday?" / "You know, super chill. W-W-Whatcha doin'?" / "Eh, nothing adventurous. You know that race of Underground Dwelling Cannibal Horse People that we're always fighting?" / "Yeah, the CHUDs. W-W-What about 'em?" / "Well, don't tell anybody, but I'm working on a bioweapon to use against them, so I got this barrel of horse semen from your mom's hospital and I'm just gonna, you know, subject it to some otherworldly forces."

      • 2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 December 2021:

        The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar scenes of life in New York into otherworldly and waterlogged chaos on Wednesday night.

      • 2024 April 2, Sarfraz Manzoor, quoting Suzi Ronson, “‘Bowie said he’d sell his soul to be famous’: Suzi Ronson on sex, ruthless ambition – and dyeing David’s hair red”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2024:

        "David [Bowie] used to say he would sell his soul to be famous," she says. "But he was also otherworldly – and you couldn’t take your eyes off him."

2. Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with spiritual matters.

   Synonym: unworldly

   • 1917 May, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Invisible King”, in God the Invisible King, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company […], →OCLC, § 7 (Adjusting Life), page 144:

     Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not other-worldly, must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.

   • 1947 March, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and Warburg, published 1950, →OCLC, page 50:

     [Leo] Tolstoy was not a saint, but he tried very hard to make himself into a saint, and the standards he applied to literature were other-worldly ones.

   • 2007 August 26, Clive Davis, “Simphiwe Dana: The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street”, in The Times‎, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 December 2025:

     [Simphiwe] Dana has the otherworldly temperament of a mystic.

3. (by extension, obsolete, rare) Of or relating to the imagination or intellect.
   • 1873, Walter H[oratio] Pater, “[Johann Joachim] Winckelmann”, in Studies in the History of the Renaissance, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 204:

     It is easy with the other-worldly gifts to be a schöne Seele [beautiful soul]; but to the large vision of [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe that seemed to be a phase of life that a man might feel all round and leave behind him.

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