Dictionary Entry
worldly
worldly is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
- 2adjective
Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
- 3adjective
Lay, as opposed to clerical.
- 4adverb
With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
- 5adjective
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"
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- 6adjective
characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
"worldly goods and advancement"
"temporal possessions of the church"
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