worldly
30
5.8
- adjective
- /ˈwɜrldli/
:
mundano
- After years of travel, she returned with a worldly outlook that impressed everyone.
- worldly affairs
- worldly salvation
- worldly success
So we we can't read, you know, God's favor in worldly terms.
- So we we can't read, you know, God's favor in worldly terms.
- Now the mind structure of seeking, you then take it from the worldly things into the spiritual.
- I'm not saying abstain from all worldly pleasures.
- How does one introspection is the way to shed yourself of like worldly expectations.
- And you have to then the next two months is spent just unwinding your worldly affairs, right?
- It's about a boy, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who goes off on a search for a worldly treasure.
- I don't, I'm not saying a portfolio of investments financially is not important, but what's the point of worldly success with a empty heart?
- It's like you're leaving the worldly, the worldly life behind and start a different way of life.
- You know, that's, I don't want to say an atheist, but that's a worldly, you know, statement.
- But manifesting worldly wishes depletes it drastically.
- Don't you know, they're all telling us don't overdo all these worldly things that we tend to overdo?
Examples
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Now, all my worldly possessions and the rest of my life is in that bag.
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I, too, have made a change for worldly comfort.
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If you die, can I have all your worldly possessions?
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Others are much occupied with worldly affairs, but they never forget that it's there.
Fiction book (2000) -
Life does not end in the brief span of worldly existence.
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"After his wife died, Guilhem gave up all his worldly possessions and became a monk."
Fiction book (2002) -
But everything she owned was here, and Eleanor had entrusted her with all her worldly possessions.
Fiction book (1997) -
To the town children, the refinery students seemed the most worldly-wise and sophisticated of beings.
Fiction book (1993) -
Georgia's first act of atonement was to hand over... ...all of her worldly belongings to the church.
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Many people choose to focus on worldly matters rather than spiritual pursuits.
Synonyms
143
4.7
Not connected with religion, about everyday and public life
75
4.5
Relating to the physical world and everyday life, not the spiritual
23
6.1
Liking money and things more than ideas or feelings
18
7.6
About the physical world rather than spiritual matters
1
5.6
About everyday life or material things, not about religion
1
7.4
Not interested in religious or moral ideas and focused on practical things
Mainly interested in money and everyday things, not religion
Focused on human wants and material things instead of spiritual matters
Antonyms
Compounds
How Worldly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Worldly comes from world ('life on earth') and -ly ('related to'), so it can describe a focus on earth's things like money and possessions rather than on spiritual matters.