EGAVE

worldly

About 5.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
  2. adjective Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
  3. adjective Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
  4. adverb In a worldly manner.

Similar words

mundane material temporal sophisticated materialistic mercenary economic blase profane terrestrial

Often followed by

goods and wisdom affairs things life possessions success pleasures

Word family

worldlier worldliest worldliness worldlinesses

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