WORLDS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

worlds

noun

plural of world

as in humanities

human beings in general the whole world is waiting to see how this crisis will play out

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as in planets

the celestial body on which we live worried about the effects of pollution on the world

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as in universes

the whole body of things observed or assumed theories about the origin of the world

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voids

as in galaxies

a huge physical or conceptual distance they have ideas for the new project that are a world away from his own

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Recent Examples of worlds In, Zoom Out, the feature debut of Chinese director Dong Jie, which follows a young game designer searching through real and virtual worlds to find his missing roommate. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2026 Create a character, solve challenges and explore new worlds with other players. — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 20 July 2026 One of the people who best embodies that meeting of worlds is Lee Ann Felder-Heim, an immigration lawyer from the Asian Law Caucus organization. — Albinson Linares, NBC news, 18 July 2026 This year, with no worlds or Olympics on the schedule, Kerr made the mile his key target. — ABC News, 18 July 2026 The universe of the film, as all of Nolan’s worlds are, is one drawn from the muted colors of reluctant determination and it’s structured by a gravity of inexpressible guilt. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 July 2026 Humans once lived in their own closed worlds, Callard argues. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 July 2026 Whitehead, meanwhile, crystalizes his sense of what makes the city run, where Carney fits in, and how the straight and crooked worlds are entwined in one strange ecosystem with laws that only the lawless can enforce. — David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026 Fiction is able to explore the seams of self-interest and conflict that run across men’s social worlds with a freer hand. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for worlds

Noun

It was followed by a similar letter written by social sciences, humanities and professional faculty in support of reinstating standardized testing.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
There was a scattering of arts and humanities people who were paying attention to AI and who generally approached the technology with an attitude of open curiosity.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026

Definition of humanities

Noun

Curated by Our Editors There are more subtle effects as well—such as gradual changes in the shape of Earth’s orbit as a result of the gravitational effects of other planets—that make this calculation difficult.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026
And typically, the extreme radiation around these stars totally strips the atmospheres from the planets orbiting them, so astronomers have wondered if planets orbiting these stars can have an atmosphere at all.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 16 July 2026

Definition of planets

Noun

ConnectiCon, Connecticut’s longest running pop culture convention is at the Connecticut Convention Center with its multiple universes of fandom, cosplay, celebs and creative types.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
Nice-guy-with-an-edge Joel McHale oversees this mashup of reality universes and large-than-life personalities.

— Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026

Definition of universes

Noun

For the first time, astronomers have reconstructed the magnetic field of an entire cluster of galaxies, from its central nucleus to its outer limits.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 July 2026
This, in turn, can help refine our bigger-picture understanding of how stars and galaxies formed.

— Damien Pine, Scientific American, 21 July 2026

Definition of galaxies

Noun

Linguistic diversity is not a good acquired at no expense to the societies that have chosen it (or been forced to choose it) over homogeneity.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Storms smash into cities, disease shuts down whole societies, and millions of humans migrate across the globe.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of societies

Noun

In another Amsterdam photo, a pair of identical world globes, recalling Ghirri’s passion for cartography and atlases, rest on matching supports to conjure that oldest of surrealist tropes, a pair of staring eyes.

— James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Besides dusting, this includes wiping off the lightbulbs, removing any light globes to wash and dry them, and wiping dust from the fan’s motor and pull chain with a microfiber cloth.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 May 2026

Definition of globes

Noun

Then Nicolas Tagliafico, a poor defender up against a great attacker in Lamine Yamal, took to attempting to foul the winger in four different ways at once, but most unpleasantly grazed his studs down Yamal’s calf.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Japanese festivals often serve as ways for deities to be brought into the streets for sacred or ritual purposes while also bringing communities together in celebration.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026

Definition of ways

Noun

Energy buyers in Asia and Europe, the US military, Arab publics, global investors, universities, football, and mediation partners from Tehran to the Taliban all came to want Qatar functioning, each for their own reason.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Museums are sincerely trying to connect with their publics (even if these are often cast as consumers), and the horizon for that experiment is almost limitless.

— Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026