worldly

Word family  noun world underworld worldliness adjective world worldly ≠ unworldly worldwide adverb worldwide

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++world·ly /ˈwɜːldli $ ˈwɜːrld-/ adjective [only before noun]  1. worldly goods/possessions literaryOWN everything you own 财产2  RELIGIONrelating to ordinary life rather than spiritual or religious ideas 尘世的，世俗的 SYN mundane He seemed very calm and far removed from worldly concerns. 他显得非常淡定，完全没有俗世的忧虑。3. EXPERIENCEDhaving a lot of experience and knowledge about people and life 生活经验丰富的；老成练达的 OPP unworldly —worldliness noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

worldly• For a priest he was surprisingly worldly.• As it usually does to men, war made Stewart much more worldly.• The gospel is not analogous to philosophical wisdom; it is folly to the worldly.• The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord; the married man is anxious about worldly affairs.• He learned that there was such a job as trading bonds from his more worldly classmates.• Members of the church tried to isolate themselves from worldly influences.• He wasn't a worldly man in that direction.• Marilyn is a worldly New Yorker in her 60s.• In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.• The trouble is that various worldly pressures will make you more, not less, inclined to play it safe.• She was much older and more worldly than I was.

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worldly
world‧ly /ˈwɜːldli $ ˈwɜːrld-/ adjective [only before noun]1. worldly goods/possessions literary everything you own
2. relating to ordinary life rather than spiritual or religious ideas
   SYN  mundane:
    He seemed very calm and far removed from worldly concerns.
3. having a lot of experience and knowledge about people and life
   OPP  unworldly
—worldliness noun [uncountable]

world·lyBrE /ˈwɜːldli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwɜːrldli/ 🔊 adjective (literary) [only before noun] connected with the world in which we live rather than with spiritual things 尘世的；世俗的；世事的◆worldly success世俗的成就◆your worldly goods (= the things that you own) 你个人的物品 OPP spiritual having a lot of experience of life and therefore not easily shocked 生活经验丰富的；老成持重的；世故的◆At 15, he was more worldly than his older cousins who lived in the country. 他 15 岁时就比他那些居住在乡村的表兄们懂人情世故了。🔊🔊 OPP unworldly ▸ world·li·ness BrE /ˈwɜːldlinəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwɜːrldlinəs/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]