 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
worldly
adjective
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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worldly \World"ly\, adjective [AS. woroldlic.]
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
worldly actions. ''I thus neglecting worldly ends.''
--Shak.
Many years it hath continued, standing by no other
worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
it. --Hooker.
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.
With his soul fled all my worldly solace. --Shak.
3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worldly \World"ly\, adverb
With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
By simply meek. --Milton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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