Meaning of too good for this world | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Too morally good or pure for the sinful mortal world.
   not-comparable
2. Out of this world; of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous.
   idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“1733, Lewis Theobald, ed., The Works of Shakespeare: in Seven Volumes, Dedication, page A3. It 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.”

“2016, Alexandra Petri, ComPost • Opinion (satire), The Washington Post. Obama: Merrick Garland is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure”

CEFR level