# weltfremd

weltfremd is a German adjective meaning “naive”. Forms: weltfremder, am weltfremdesten.

## Forms

- Comparative: weltfremder
- Superlative: am weltfremdesten

## In other languages

- Русский: не от мира сего

## Meanings

1. naive, unworldly, unfamiliar with the reality, the challenges, and the opportunities of everyday life
   - Einem so weltfremden Offizier wäre nie der Verdacht gekommen, sein Ersatz-Kaiser könne rabiat genug sein, ihn als Sittenstrolch zu diffamieren. — Such a naive officer would never have suspected that his substitute emperor could be so ruthless as to diffame him as a sex offender.
2. sheltered, cloistered
   - "Köhlerglaube" ist zunächst der Glaube der Köhler, die weltfremd, von Stadt und Menschen abgeschieden, ihrem Handwerk obliegen. — The "charcoal burners' belief" is in the first place that which the charcoal burners believe, who are sheltered, cut off from the city and the people, and devoted to their trade.
3. absurd, otherworldly
   - Wie absurd und weltfremd das ist, zeigen die Beispiele derjenigen amerikanischen Soldaten, die den Befehl zur Verlegung an den Golf verweigerten, aber nicht desertierten. — How absurd and otherworldly this is is shown by examples of American soldiers who disobeyed the order to be transfer to the Gulf, but who didn't desert.

## Examples

- Hat es Sinn, das Land von weltfremden Politikern regieren zu lassen? — Does it make sense for the world to be ruled by out-of-touch politicians?
- Er erfüllt ganz und gar nicht die Klischeevorstellung vom weltfremden Professor. — He's not at all like the cliché of an unworldly professor.

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