worldly
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adjective- 1.
Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip, These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.
c. 1883-1896, Vyasa, Kisari Mohan Ganguli (translator), The Mahabharata, Book 1: Adi Parva, Section LXXXV, Thirst of enjoyment, therefore, should be given up. Indeed, true happiness belongeth to them that have cast off their thirst for worldly objects--a thirst which is difficult to be thrown off by the wicked and the sinful, which faileth not with the failing life, and which is truly the fatal disease of man.
Đồng nghĩa: material, mundane, sublunar
- 2.
Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
Đồng nghĩa: lay, profane, temporal, areligious, civil, earthly, irreligious, laicist, laicistic, mundane, nonreligious, profane, secular, temporal, unconsecrated, unsanctified, worldly
- 3.
Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
Đồng nghĩa: sophisticated, street-smart
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adverb- 1.
In a worldly manner.
Đồng nghĩa: secularly, unspiritually, worldlily
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From Middle English worldly, worldlich, wordly, from Old English woruldlīċ, worldlīċ, weoroldlīċ (worldly; earthly; temporal; mundane; secular), from Proto-Germanic *weraldilīkaz, equivalent to world + -ly. Cognate with wereldlijk, weltlik, weltlich, verdslig, världslig, veraldlegur.