Antonyms for worldly

Grammar : Adj

Spell : wurld-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɜrld li

Definition of worldly

Origin : Old English woruldlic, from the roots of world and like (adj.). A common Germanic compound (cf. Old Frisian wraldlik, Old Saxon weroldlik, Middle Dutch wereldlik, German weltlich, Old Norse veraldligr). Worldly-wise is recorded from c.1400.

adj material, nonreligious
adj sophisticated, materialistic

Example sentences :

If I have erred, 'tis to worldly wisdom only that I have erred.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Then he licked his chops and looked in admiration on his worldly friend.
Extract from : « A Night Out » by Edward Peple

He has been the very madman of politics from the point of view of Mr. Worldly Wiseman.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

All your worldly goods you will leave to some one who is very dear to you.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

Not surely so much in worldly as in religious considerations.
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox

She thought, maybe, that she had half convinced me of her worldly wisdom.
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

But Mary thought otherwise, and in matters of worldly judgment he could only yield.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

Vargrave, I am ambitious, worldly: I own it; but I could give up all for you!
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Worldly wise in hard and poor necessities, she was innocent in all things else.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

Worldly affairs were too much for him; he couldn't make them out at all.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

Synonyms for worldly

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