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Synonyms for worldly
ˈwɜrld liworld·ly
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Wiktionary
worldlyadjective
Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
worldlyadjective
Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
worldlyadjective
Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
Synonyms:
sophisticated, street-smart
English Synonyms and Antonyms
worldly
Synonyms:
abominable, common, cursed, impure, polluted, secular, unconsecrated, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, wickedAntonyms:
blessed, consecrated, devoted, divine, hallowed, holy, sacred, saintly, set apart
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Princeton's WordNet
worldly, secular, temporaladjective
characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
"worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"
Synonyms:
profane, lay, blase, temporal, laic, secularAntonyms:
anchoritic, cloistered, naif, unworldly, unmercenary, eremitic, hermitical, monastical, unearthly, monastic, eremitical, cloistral, naive, spiritual, conventual, hermiticblase, worldlyadjective
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"
Synonyms:
bored, blase, temporal, secularAntonyms:
anchoritic, naif, eremitic, hermitic, naive, unearthly, unmercenary, cloistral, monastical, monastic, eremitical, spiritual, conventual, cloistered, hermitical, unworldly
Editors Contribution
humanhoodadjective
living in the flesh, not of the spirit!
Submitted by churelle11 on June 30, 2023
Dictionary of English Synonymes
worldlyadjective
Synonyms:
earthly, mundane, terrestrial, terrene, sublunary, human, commonworldlyadjective
worldlyadjective
Synonyms:
sordid, grovelling, selfish, earth-born, irreligious
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List of paraphrases for "worldly":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#736 | common | |
#812 | material | |
#4324 | lay | |
#6642 | sophisticated | |
#8459 | wicked | |
#9766 | temporal | |
#9929 | bored | |
#12654 | secular | |
#13732 | terrestrial | |
#17926 | cursed | |
#22821 | earthly | |
#24522 | mundane | |
#24763 | worldly | |
#26728 | polluted | |
#32543 | profane | |
#34224 | unholy | |
#37394 | carnal | |
#44601 | impure | |
#51404 | abominable | |
#113424 | blase | |
#219191 | unhallowed |
How to use worldly in a sentence?
Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.
The funny thing is that I’ve known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids, i always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling, gypsy lady.
There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!
Melinda strikes me as someone who is not going to look for something purely superficial, shall we say, but Bill seems like a guy who part of what turns him on is intellect – smart women are very sexy to him. So I think that he's very likely to be with someone who is worldly, has life experience and is successful in her own right. Perhaps a woman that is very, very, very bright.
there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”
Translations for worldly
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- mundanoSpanish
- maallinen, sekulaarinen, mainenFinnish
- domhandaIrish
- saoghaltaScottish Gaelic
- mondano, mondanamenteItalian
- mundanusLatin
- способен, ербап, овоземски, искусен, светски, световенMacedonian
- wereldwijs, seculier, wereldlijk, materieelDutch
- verdensvantNorwegian
- mundanoPortuguese
- опытный, суетный, светский, земной, бывалый, мирскойRussian
- världsligSwedish
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