Worldly \World"ly\, a. [AS. woroldlic.]
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1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." --Shak.
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Many years it hath continued, standing by no other
worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
it. --Hooker.
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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.
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With his soul fled all my worldly solace. --Shak.
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3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Worldly \World"ly\, adv.
With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
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Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
By simply meek. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
blase, temporal, worldlier, worldliest
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