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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
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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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