worldly
adjective/ˈwɜːldli/
/ˈwɜːrldli/
(literary)- [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)
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- having 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.
Word OriginOld English woruldlic (see world, -ly).
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