out of this world

1. 1.

   exceptionally or unusually good

   “the food here is out of this world”

   Synonymsout of the ordinary

   Similarsuperior

Questions about out of this world

What does out of this world mean?

out of this world means "exceptionally or unusually good".

What is another word for out of this world?

Close synonyms include out of the ordinary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is out of this world a common word?

out of this world is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.