worldly

worldly

adjective

Definition of WORLDLY

1

having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience <she returned from her year as an exchange student a much more worldly person>

Synonyms cosmopolitan, smart, sophisticated, worldly

Related Words suave, urbane; civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined; experienced, knowing, practiced, schooled, seasoned; bored, cynical, jaded, skeptical; down-to-earth, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober

Near Antonyms callow, green, inexperienced, raw; parochial, provincial, rustic (also rustical); philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined; childlike, simple, simpleminded; idealistic, impractical; uncritical, unknowing

Antonyms guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or na{iuml}ve), unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed

2

having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven <preoccupied with worldly concerns>

Synonyms carnal, earthborn, earthbound, fleshly, material, mundane, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly

Related Words animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, physical; daily, diurnal; unspiritual; anthropic (or anthropical), anthropocentric

Near Antonyms celestial, Elysian, empyreal, empyrean, supernal; metaphysical; devotional, divine, religious, sacred, spiritual, utopian; extraterrestrial; ethereal, supernatural, transcendent, transcendental

Antonyms heavenly, nontemporal, unearthly, unworldly