- 1[only before noun] connected with the world in which we live rather than with spiritual things worldly success your worldly goods (= the things that you own) opposite spiritual
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- 2having a lot of experience of life and therefore not easily shocked At 15, he was more worldly than his older cousins who lived in the country. opposite unworldly
noun [uncountable]See worldly in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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