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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
worldly \world"ly\, a. as. woroldlic.
1913 webster
1. relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
worldly actions. "i thus neglecting worldly ends." --shak.
1913 webster
many years it hath continued, standing by no other
worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
it. --hooker.
1913 webster
2. 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; as, worldly
pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
1913 webster
with his soul fled all my worldly solace. --shak.
1913 webster
3. lay, as opposed to clerical. obs. --chaucer.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
worldly \world"ly\, adv.
with relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
1913 webster
subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
by simply meek. --milton.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
worldly
adj 1: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly
goods and advancement" ant: unworldly
2: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in
the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the
ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his
worldly wisdom" syn: blase
3: concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords
temporal and spiritual" syn: temporal
also: worldliest, worldlier
see also:
unworldly blase temporal worldliest worldlier
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 moby thesaurus words for "worldly":
philistine, banausic, blase, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded,
corporal, corporeal, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, disenchanted,
disillusioned, down-to-earth, earthly, earthy, experienced,
fleshly, hardheaded, hylic, knowing, material, materialistic,
materiate, matter-of-fact, mature, matured, mondaine, mundane,
nonsacred, nonspiritual, not born yesterday, old, physical,
positivistic, practical, practical-minded, practiced, pragmatic,
profane, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, reprobate, ripe,
ripened, sagacious, sane, scientific, scientistic, seasoned,
secular, sensible, sensual, sober-minded, somatic, sophisticate,
sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking,
substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial,
tried, tried and true, unblessed, unhallowed, unholy, unideal,
unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic, unsacred, unsanctified,
unsentimental, unspiritual, veteran, world-wise, worldly-wise
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