"too good for this world" meaning in All languages combined

See too good for this world on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Audio: En-au-too good for this world.ogg
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} too good for this world (not comparable)
  1. Too morally good or pure for the sinful mortal world. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-too_good_for_this_world-en-adj-R2lQHTQL
  2. (idiomatic) Out of this world; of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous. Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-too_good_for_this_world-en-adj-mfyRTBxA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 98
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "too good for this world (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1733, Lewis Theobald, ed., The Works of Shakespeare: in Seven Volumes, Dedication, page A3.\nIt might be a childish Superstition, perhaps, to imagine her too good for this World, but we feel to our Concern, that what made her revered on Earth, qualified her too early for a Saint in Heaven."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Too morally good or pure for the sinful mortal world."
      ],
      "id": "en-too_good_for_this_world-en-adj-R2lQHTQL",
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 98",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2016, Alexandra Petri, ComPost • Opinion (satire), The Washington Post.\nObama: Merrick Garland is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Out of this world; of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous."
      ],
      "id": "en-too_good_for_this_world-en-adj-mfyRTBxA",
      "links": [
        [
          "Out of this world",
          "out of this world#English"
        ],
        [
          "exceptionally",
          "exceptionally#English"
        ],
        [
          "wonderful",
          "wonderful#English"
        ],
        [
          "marvelous",
          "marvelous#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Out of this world; of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-too good for this world.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/En-au-too_good_for_this_world.ogg/En-au-too_good_for_this_world.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-au-too_good_for_this_world.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "too good for this world"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "too good for this world (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1733, Lewis Theobald, ed., The Works of Shakespeare: in Seven Volumes, Dedication, page A3.\nIt might be a childish Superstition, perhaps, to imagine her too good for this World, but we feel to our Concern, that what made her revered on Earth, qualified her too early for a Saint in Heaven."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Too morally good or pure for the sinful mortal world."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2016, Alexandra Petri, ComPost • Opinion (satire), The Washington Post.\nObama: Merrick Garland is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Out of this world; of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Out of this world",
          "out of this world#English"
        ],
        [
          "exceptionally",
          "exceptionally#English"
        ],
        [
          "wonderful",
          "wonderful#English"
        ],
        [
          "marvelous",
          "marvelous#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Out of this world; of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-too good for this world.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/En-au-too_good_for_this_world.ogg/En-au-too_good_for_this_world.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-au-too_good_for_this_world.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "too good for this world"
}

Download raw JSONL data for too good for this world meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.