Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or characteristic of a different sphere of existence; extramundane; unearthly; belonging or relating to the future life.

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Examples

  • And the glass of it was to us, so that we could see the face and head of Kahekili through the glass; and he grinned at us through the glass and seemed alive already in the other world and angry with us, and, with other-world power, about to wreak his anger upon us.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • Then why could not these other-world memories of the boy resurrect?

    Chapter 6 2010

  • Everyone is watching, everyone is talking about it, but if the markets are a measure of the real world, this most important and urgent of matters seems to have become part of the entertainment-cable-Internet-popular culture other-world that consumes our lives, but isn't really part of our lives.

    David Paul: Debt Ceiling Battle Offers House Republicans Untold Leverage David Paul 2011

  • My dream setting: The Yellow Mountains in China where the pine trees, strange stones setting, unusual cloud formation and hot spring gives the mountain a mythical, other-world feel.

    Angels' Blood Countdown: Denise Rossetti - The Flame and the Shadow Nalini Singh 2009

  • But first, I must tell how as a boy I had had these other-world memories.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • Everyone is watching, everyone is talking about it, but if the markets are a measure of the real world, this most important and urgent of matters seems to have become part of the entertainment-cable-Internet-popular culture other-world that consumes our lives, but isn't really part of our lives.

    David Paul: Debt Ceiling Battle Offers House Republicans Untold Leverage David Paul 2011

  • Everyone is watching, everyone is talking about it, but if the markets are a measure of the real world, this most important and urgent of matters seems to have become part of the entertainment-cable-Internet-popular culture other-world that consumes our lives, but isn't really part of our lives.

    David Paul: Debt Ceiling Battle Offers House Republicans Untold Leverage David Paul 2011

  • Everyone is watching, everyone is talking about it, but if the markets are a measure of the real world, this most important and urgent of matters seems to have become part of the entertainment-cable-Internet-popular culture other-world that consumes our lives, but isn't really part of our lives.

    David Paul: Debt Ceiling Battle Offers House Republicans Untold Leverage David Paul 2011

  • Looks like some other-world chess match Obama is playing with the world, but what if the result is some taxes actually go up for the super-rich (the only people alive in America who can actually pay increased taxes) to help pay for some increases in favored expenditures?

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending 2010

  • It's an experience to read her books, an almost other-world experience.

    The great ball of China Peter Rozovsky 2010

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