Thesaurus
worldly-wise
worldly–wise
adjective
Definition of WORLDLY-WISE
having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience <her long career as a globe-trotting journalist has made her very worldly-wise and even a little jaded>
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
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