worldly | Definition of worldly

Synonyms and Antonyms of worldly

1 having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience

she returned from her year as an exchange student a much more worldly person

Synonyms of worldly

cosmopolitan, smart, sophisticated, worldly-wise

Words Related to worldly

civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined

experienced, knowing, practiced, schooled, seasoned

bored, cynical, jaded, skeptical

down-to-earth, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober

Near Antonyms of worldly

callow, green, inexperienced, raw

parochial, provincial, rustic (also rustical)

philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined

childlike, simple, simpleminded

idealistic, impractical

uncritical, unknowing

Antonyms of worldly

guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed

2 having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven

preoccupied with worldly concerns

Synonyms of worldly

carnal, earthborn, earthbound, earthly, fleshly, material, mundane, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial

Words Related to worldly

animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, physical

anthropic (or anthropical), anthropocentric

Near Antonyms of worldly

celestial, Elysian, empyreal, empyrean, supernal

devotional, divine, religious, sacred, spiritual, utopian

extraterrestrial

ethereal, supernatural, transcendent, transcendental

Antonyms of worldly

heavenly, nontemporal, unearthly, unworldly