Antonyms for worldly
ˈwɜrld liworld·ly

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1. worldlyadjective

   Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.

   Synonyms:
   material, mundane

2. worldlyadjective

   Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

   Synonyms:
   lay, profane

3. worldlyadjective

   Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

   Synonyms:
   sophisticated, street-smart

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1. worldly

   Antonyms:
   blessed, consecrated, devoted, divine, hallowed, holy, sacred, saintly, set apart

   Synonyms:
   abominable, common, cursed, impure, polluted, secular, unconsecrated, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, wicked

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. worldly

   Antonyms:
   heavenly, spiritual

   Synonyms:
   terrestrial, mundane, temporal, secular, earthly, carnal

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1. worldly, secular, temporaladjective

   characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

   "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

   Antonyms:
   anchoritic, cloistered, naif, unworldly, unmercenary, eremitic, hermitical, monastical, unearthly, monastic, eremitical, cloistral, naive, spiritual, conventual, hermitic

   Synonyms:
   profane, lay, blase, temporal, laic, secular

2. blase, worldlyadjective

   very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world

   "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"

   Antonyms:
   anchoritic, naif, eremitic, hermitic, naive, unearthly, unmercenary, cloistral, monastical, monastic, eremitical, spiritual, conventual, cloistered, hermitical, unworldly

   Synonyms:
   bored, blase, temporal, secular

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1. worldlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   terrestrial, earthly, mundane, terrene, secular, temporal

How to use worldly in a sentence?

1. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”

2. Bryant McGill:

   Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

3. Francis Quarles:

   Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

4. Chinese:

   Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.

5. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2:

   I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

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