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Definition of worldly in English: worldlyadjectiveworldlier, worldliest ˈwəːldliˈwərldli 1(of a person) experienced and sophisticated. （人）善于处世的，世故的 she was much more worldly than Nora and dismissed the slur Example sentencesExamples - He's a very interesting, very worldly man and he is interested in me.
- Australians love America, but any worldly person knows you do not threaten Aussies.
- Younger people will ask you important and earnest questions only an experienced and worldly man of age can answer.
- As he grew older, his comedy expanded and became at the same time more personal and more worldly.
- These kinds of horror stories might scare kids, but they're unlikely to scare worldly adults.
- Looking to the side, he is more worldly than she, more concerned with what others are doing and thinking.
- They are worldly, intelligent, well-read and hopeful about having a decent future.
- However she was hardly a naive character falling for the guile of worldly men.
- She knew that if she poised her laughs right, she sounded sophisticated and worldly.
- In important although quite different ways, these women are more worldly and stronger than he.
- He was an intelligent, worldly man whose passion for social equality and justice impressed her greatly.
- The cops have copies of emails from a naïve analyst to his more worldly colleagues.
- They celebrated China as a great nation and presented themselves as worldly cosmopolitans.
- She uses particular features to portray herself as a sophisticated, worldly woman.
- For his age, Pyp was a clever child and the past weeks had matured him into a little worldly man.
- He seems to represent the sort of man she has dreamed about - worldly, charming and cultured.
- Blinkered voters get the parochial leaders they want rather than the worldly leaders they presumably need.
- My parents didn't have any money but they were worldly and very practical.
- Selfless work done with full heart and perfection is the best way for the worldly person to realize his inner Self.
- Her experiences in Mozambique had made her much more worldly than the girls she would encounter at school in America.
Synonyms sophisticated, experienced, worldly-wise, knowledgeable, knowing, aware, enlightened, shrewd, astute, perceptive, media-savvy, mature, seasoned, cosmopolitan, urbane, cultivated, cultured, unprovincial informal having been around 2Of or concerned with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence. 世俗头脑的，追名逐利的 his ambitions for worldly success 他追名逐利的野心。 Example sentencesExamples - Bathed in the red morning light he looked like a young angel - albeit a rather worldly one.
- Franklin's recognition of ceramics and silver as potent symbols of worldly success rang true.
- Not all the Reformers were willing to make the clear separation between the worldly and the spiritual kingdoms that Luther made.
- He had discovered a middle way, free from attachment to either worldly or spiritual identity.
- But another part of me says that you can't split the spiritual and the worldly quite so easily.
- She was concerned in a variety of other ways to look after his welfare, both spiritual and worldly.
- How, it asks, is poetic talent related to worldly success, and ought one to live if the talent burns out?
- The appeal was to civic conscience rather than worldly vanity: someone had to perform this important task.
- To some the praise of politicians may seem but the glorification of worldly success.
- All the above men wanted a more spiritual and less worldly religion.
- Honour, duty and order had always driven him, and earned him worldly success despite that relative lack of ambition.
- Another delegation tries to get in, this one with more worldly clout and more success.
- During the walk in the dark you are meant to let go of worldly concerns.
- At this age I've had a lot of career and I'm less concerned about my worldly success.
- The pride of worldly success will not bring any lasting peace and can quite easily destroy a person's soul.
- From his seat in exile at Rumtek, he had built a spiritual and worldly empire with millions of followers and extensive assets.
- Which is more important, the worldly existence or the heavenly one?
- In a culture that measures everything in terms of size, success, and influence, we have to say no to these worldly values as well.
- Religion advocates that we must renounce all worldly material things and become ascetics.
- Her response is to renegotiate the boundaries between spiritual faith and worldly economies.
Synonyms earthly, terrestrial, temporal, mundane, mortal, human, non-spiritual, unspiritual, material, materialistic, physical, tangible, carnal, fleshly, bodily, corporeal, gross, sensual, base, sordid, vile, profane secular, lay, non-church, non-religious rare sublunary, terrene, laic
Phrasesworldly goods (or possessions or wealth) Everything that one owns. 全部家当 a parcel that contained all his worldly goods Example sentencesExamples - I know that I will forfeit my freedom, my reputation, my worldly possessions, and most importantly, the trust of my friends and family.
- Understanding that his spiritual development was more valuable than worldly wealth, he accepted, instead, 657 religious manuscripts.
- How can it be possible that Australians support a position where 460 desperate human beings without homes or worldly possessions are turned away from our shore when we have so very much ourselves?
- Marcus just e-mailed me to say that the container holding all our worldly possessions is scheduled to set sail for Trinidad on February 9th.
- Also, some of Carmena's worldly possessions were quite valuable.
- A year ago today, my then-fiancée (now wife) and I stepped off the British Airways flight from London, all our worldly possessions packed into suitcases in the hold or stacked in a container in the bowels of a ship.
- It was here that the worldly possessions of a million innocents were sifted of valuables and stored.
- He walks in as he does almost every day: sporting his iconic tortoise shell glasses, trademark cane and toting a backpack filled with all his worldly possessions.
- With that the human soul itself is undermined, both in its worldly wealth and its spiritual life.
- With their donkeys carrying all their worldly possessions, they arrived following an exhausting trek four days ago.
Synonyms belongings, possessions, stuff, property, worldly goods, goods, personal effects, effects, paraphernalia, impedimenta, bits and pieces, bits and bobs
OriginOld English woruldlic (see world, -ly1). Definition of worldly in US English: worldlyadjectiveˈwərldlēˈwərldli 1(of a person) experienced and sophisticated. （人）善于处世的，世故的 she was much more worldly than Nora and dismissed the slur Example sentencesExamples - He was an intelligent, worldly man whose passion for social equality and justice impressed her greatly.
- He seems to represent the sort of man she has dreamed about - worldly, charming and cultured.
- She uses particular features to portray herself as a sophisticated, worldly woman.
- However she was hardly a naive character falling for the guile of worldly men.
- Younger people will ask you important and earnest questions only an experienced and worldly man of age can answer.
- For his age, Pyp was a clever child and the past weeks had matured him into a little worldly man.
- As he grew older, his comedy expanded and became at the same time more personal and more worldly.
- Selfless work done with full heart and perfection is the best way for the worldly person to realize his inner Self.
- Blinkered voters get the parochial leaders they want rather than the worldly leaders they presumably need.
- They are worldly, intelligent, well-read and hopeful about having a decent future.
- Looking to the side, he is more worldly than she, more concerned with what others are doing and thinking.
- In important although quite different ways, these women are more worldly and stronger than he.
- She knew that if she poised her laughs right, she sounded sophisticated and worldly.
- These kinds of horror stories might scare kids, but they're unlikely to scare worldly adults.
- The cops have copies of emails from a naïve analyst to his more worldly colleagues.
- My parents didn't have any money but they were worldly and very practical.
- They celebrated China as a great nation and presented themselves as worldly cosmopolitans.
- Her experiences in Mozambique had made her much more worldly than the girls she would encounter at school in America.
- Australians love America, but any worldly person knows you do not threaten Aussies.
- He's a very interesting, very worldly man and he is interested in me.
Synonyms sophisticated, experienced, worldly-wise, knowledgeable, knowing, aware, enlightened, shrewd, astute, perceptive, media-savvy, mature, seasoned, cosmopolitan, urbane, cultivated, cultured, unprovincial 2Of or concerned with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence. 世俗头脑的，追名逐利的 his ambitions for worldly success 他追名逐利的野心。 Example sentencesExamples - She was concerned in a variety of other ways to look after his welfare, both spiritual and worldly.
- He had discovered a middle way, free from attachment to either worldly or spiritual identity.
- To some the praise of politicians may seem but the glorification of worldly success.
- In a culture that measures everything in terms of size, success, and influence, we have to say no to these worldly values as well.
- Bathed in the red morning light he looked like a young angel - albeit a rather worldly one.
- How, it asks, is poetic talent related to worldly success, and ought one to live if the talent burns out?
- Not all the Reformers were willing to make the clear separation between the worldly and the spiritual kingdoms that Luther made.
- During the walk in the dark you are meant to let go of worldly concerns.
- Which is more important, the worldly existence or the heavenly one?
- Franklin's recognition of ceramics and silver as potent symbols of worldly success rang true.
- Another delegation tries to get in, this one with more worldly clout and more success.
- Her response is to renegotiate the boundaries between spiritual faith and worldly economies.
- At this age I've had a lot of career and I'm less concerned about my worldly success.
- The pride of worldly success will not bring any lasting peace and can quite easily destroy a person's soul.
- But another part of me says that you can't split the spiritual and the worldly quite so easily.
- From his seat in exile at Rumtek, he had built a spiritual and worldly empire with millions of followers and extensive assets.
- Religion advocates that we must renounce all worldly material things and become ascetics.
- All the above men wanted a more spiritual and less worldly religion.
- The appeal was to civic conscience rather than worldly vanity: someone had to perform this important task.
- Honour, duty and order had always driven him, and earned him worldly success despite that relative lack of ambition.
Synonyms earthly, terrestrial, temporal, mundane, mortal, human, non-spiritual, unspiritual, material, materialistic, physical, tangible, carnal, fleshly, bodily, corporeal, gross, sensual, base, sordid, vile, profane
Phrasesworldly goods (or possessions or wealth) Everything that someone owns. 全部家当 Example sentencesExamples - With their donkeys carrying all their worldly possessions, they arrived following an exhausting trek four days ago.
- It was here that the worldly possessions of a million innocents were sifted of valuables and stored.
- Marcus just e-mailed me to say that the container holding all our worldly possessions is scheduled to set sail for Trinidad on February 9th.
- I know that I will forfeit my freedom, my reputation, my worldly possessions, and most importantly, the trust of my friends and family.
- Understanding that his spiritual development was more valuable than worldly wealth, he accepted, instead, 657 religious manuscripts.
- Also, some of Carmena's worldly possessions were quite valuable.
- How can it be possible that Australians support a position where 460 desperate human beings without homes or worldly possessions are turned away from our shore when we have so very much ourselves?
- A year ago today, my then-fiancée (now wife) and I stepped off the British Airways flight from London, all our worldly possessions packed into suitcases in the hold or stacked in a container in the bowels of a ship.
- With that the human soul itself is undermined, both in its worldly wealth and its spiritual life.
- He walks in as he does almost every day: sporting his iconic tortoise shell glasses, trademark cane and toting a backpack filled with all his worldly possessions.
Synonyms belongings, possessions, stuff, property, worldly goods, goods, personal effects, effects, paraphernalia, impedimenta, bits and pieces, bits and bobs
OriginOld English woruldlic (see world, -ly). |