'Worldly' definitions:
Definition of 'worldly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church" [syn: worldly, secular, temporal] [ant: unworldly]
adjective
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, worldly]
Definition of 'Worldly'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Worldly'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'worldly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Philistine,
- 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
Words containing 'Worldly'
- All in the world,
- For all the world,
- World,
- out of this world,
- A world to see,
- Fore world,
- New World,
- To go to the world,
- Upper world,
- World's end,
- contemporary world,
- dead to the world,
- end of the world,
- fantasy world,
- free world,
- man of the world,
- modern world,
- natural world,
- nether world,
- next world,
- old world,
- olde worlde,
- phantasy world,
- real world,
- spirit world,
- spiritual world,
- the way of the world,
- the ways of the world,
- think the world of,
- third world,
- wide world,
- world affairs,
- world bank,
- world council,
- world court,
- world cup,
- world organisation,
- world organization,
- world power,
- world premiere,
- world record,
- world series,
- world shaking,
- world traveler,
- world view,
- world war,
- world war i,
- world weary,
- world wide,
- worldly belongings,
- worldly concern,
- worldly good,
- worldly goods,
- worldly possession,
- worldly possessions,
- worldly wise,
- worlds apart,
- Fair-world,
- Old World elder,
- Seven wonders of the world,
- Top-of-the-World,
- World without end,
- World-wide,
- Worldly-minded,
- Worldly-wise,
- first world war,
- industrial workers of the world,
- new world anteater,
- new world beaver,
- new world blackbird,
- new world chat,
- new world flycatcher,
- new world goldfinch,
- new world jay,
- new world leishmaniasis,
- new world monkey,
- new world mouse,
- new world opah,
- new world oriole,
- new world porcupine,
- new world sparrow,
- new world tapir,
- new world vulture,
- new world warbler,
- old world beaver,
- old world buffalo,
- old world chat,
- old world coot,
- old world crayfish,
- old world flycatcher,
- old world jay,
- old world leishmaniasis,
- old world mistletoe,
- old world monkey,
- old world oriole,
- old world porcupine,
- old world quail,
- old world rabbit,
- old world robin,
- old world vulture,
- old world warbler,
- old world yew,
- old-world,
- second world war,
- walt disney world,
- world council of churches,
- world health organization,
- world meteorological organization,
- world tamil association,
- world tamil movement,
- world trade center,
- world trade organization,
- world war 1,
- world war 2,
- world war ii,
- world wide web,
- world-beater,
- world-class,
- world-shaking,
- world-shattering,
- world-weariness,
- world-weary,
- Old World ant thrushes,
- Top-of-the-World, AZ,
- new world coral snake,
- new world least weasel,
- old world coral snake,
- old world hop hornbeam,
- old world least weasel,
- old world scops owl,
- old world white pelican,
- seven wonders of the ancient world,
- world-wide web