Synonyms for worldly
ˈwɜrld liworld·ly

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1. worldlyadjective

   Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.

   Synonyms:
   material, mundane

2. worldlyadjective

   Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

   Synonyms:
   lay, profane

3. worldlyadjective

   Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

   Synonyms:
   sophisticated, street-smart

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1. worldly

   Synonyms:
   abominable, common, cursed, impure, polluted, secular, unconsecrated, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, wicked

   Antonyms:
   blessed, consecrated, devoted, divine, hallowed, holy, sacred, saintly, set apart

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1. worldly

   Synonyms:
   terrestrial, mundane, temporal, secular, earthly, carnal

   Antonyms:
   heavenly, spiritual

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1. 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, secular

   Antonyms:
   anchoritic, cloistered, naif, unworldly, unmercenary, eremitic, hermitical, monastical, unearthly, monastic, eremitical, cloistral, naive, spiritual, conventual, hermitic

2. blase, 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, secular

   Antonyms:
   anchoritic, naif, eremitic, hermitic, naive, unearthly, unmercenary, cloistral, monastical, monastic, eremitical, spiritual, conventual, cloistered, hermitical, unworldly

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1. humanhoodadjective

   living in the flesh, not of the spirit!

   Submitted by churelle11 on June 30, 2023  

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1. worldlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   earthly, mundane, terrestrial, terrene, sublunary, human, common

2. worldlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   secular, temporal

3. worldlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   sordid, grovelling, selfish, earth-born, irreligious

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1. worldlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   terrestrial, earthly, mundane, terrene, secular, temporal

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1. List of paraphrases for "worldly":

   secular

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1. Dante:

   Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides.

2. Bryant McGill:

   Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

3. Christen Kuikoua:

   The certainty of the world's end looms, yet those whose hearts reside at the feet of the Lord shall not meet their end as the world does. For the earth, beneath our Creator's majesty, is but His footstool, and He reigns as the sovereign monarch over both heaven and earth. In this divine embrace, one finds an eternal sanctuary beyond the temporal boundaries of worldly existence.

4. Chris Aronson:

   You can't make this stuff up, the fact that there was the announcement on the same week as our film just excites people. Human beings are just interested in other worldly things right now.

5. Chinese:

   Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.