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Word entry · 12 letters

otherworldly

Best crossword clue

"Eerily unreal"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /ˌʌðəˈwɜːldli/Part of speech adjectiveSorted dehlloorrtwyStarts with OEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1O2T3H4E5R6W7O8R9L10D11L12Y

Definitions

  1. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

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

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