Worldly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or devoted to the temporal world.
  • adj. Experienced in human affairs; sophisticated or worldly-wise: "an experienced and worldly man who had been almost everywhere” ( Willa Cather).
  • ad. In a worldly manner.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
  • adj. Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
  • adj. Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
  • ad. In a worldly manner.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Relating to the world; human; common
  • adj. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain.
  • adj. Lay, as opposed to clerical.
  • ad. With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the world or the present state of existence; temporal; earthly.
  • Secular: opposed to monastic.
  • Devoted to, interested in, or connected with this present life, and its cares, advantages, or pleasures, to the exclusion of those of a future life; desirous of temporal benefit or enjoyment merely; earthly, as opposed to heavenly or spiritual; carnal; sordid; vile: as, worldly lusts, cares, affections, pleasures; worldly men.
  • =Syn.1. Mundane, terrestrial, sublunary.
  • 1 and Worldly, Secular, Temporal, Earthly, Earthy, Unspiritual, Carnal. Worldly means of the world, in fact or in spirit, in distinction from that which is above the world; as applying to mind, it indicates a pleasure in the things that belong to the external life and a disregard of spiritual or even intellectual pleasures: it is opposed to spiritual, expressing positively what unspiritual expresses negatively. Secular is opposed to sacred or to ecclesiastical: as, there are six secular days in the week; the secular arm. Secular and temporal are rarely used in a bad sense. Temporal is opposed to spiritual or eternal: as, lords temporal; merely temporal concerns. Earthly has, like worldly, the sense of mundane, but in the sense of unspirituality it suggests more of grossness or groveling, a thought which is carried still further by earthy, although earthy is not often used in that sense. Carnal suggests that which belongs to the gratification of the animal nature; it ranges from the merely unspiritual to the sensual. See sensual and temporal.
  • In a worldly manner; with relation to this life.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
  • adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    heavenly    spiritual   
    Variant
    worldliest    worldlier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    human    common    secular    temporal    terrestrial    worldly-minded    terrene    mundane    unspiritual    carnal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    earthly    social    selfish    personal    petty    sordid    sensual