of or pertaining to this world as contrasted with heaven, spiritual life, etc.; earthly; mundane.
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experienced; knowing; sophisticated: the benefits of his worldly wisdom.
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devoted to, directed toward, or connected with the affairs, interests, or pleasures of this world.
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of or pertaining to the people or laity; secular; neither ecclesiastical nor religious.
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Obsolete. of, pertaining to, or existing on earth.
adverb
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in a worldly manner (archaic except in combination): worldly-wise; worldly-minded.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
O.E. woruldlic, from the roots of world and like (adj.). A common Gmc. compound (cf. O.Fris. wraldlik, O.S. weroldlik, M.Du. wereldlik, Ger. weltlich, O.N. veraldligr). Worldly-wise is recorded from c.1400.