worldly
Wise from travel
Worldly describes things concerned with material or earthly matters rather than spiritual ones: worldly possessions, worldly pleasures.
A worldly person is experienced and sophisticated about life, especially regarding social situations and practical affairs: She's too worldly to fall for that scam.
The word can carry slight disapproval when contrasting secular concerns with religious devotion.
Relating to chronology
- earthlyOf this world
- mundaneCommonplace, lacking excitement
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
- nonspiritualNot relating to religion
carnal · terrestrial · mortal · corporeal · fleshly · material · humanistic · irreligious
Refined and courteous
- suaveSmoothly refined in manner
- polishedSmooth, refined, accomplished
- refinedPurified or cultured
- culturedEducated in arts, manners
debonair · cosmopolitan · elegant · savvy · chic · stylish · tasteful · discerning
Flavored or battle-tested
- knowledgeableHaving extensive information
- wiseShowing good judgment
- traveledWent on a journey
- enlightenedPossessing profound insight
veteran · informed · practiced · shrewd · perceptive · canny · streetwise · pragmatic
temporal
Relating to chronology
nonspiritual · carnal · terrestrial · mortal · corporeal · fleshly · material · humanistic · irreligious · ungodly
urbane
Refined and courteous
cultured · debonair · cosmopolitan · elegant · savvy · chic · stylish · tasteful · discerning · poised
seasoned
Flavored or battle-tested
- knowledgeableHaving extensive information
- wiseShowing good judgment
- traveledWent on a journey
enlightened · veteran · informed · practiced · shrewd · perceptive · canny · streetwise · pragmatic · realistic
wealth
Abundance of valuable resources
- possessionsThings one owns
- moneyCurrency for transactions
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
luxury · property · assets · goods · affluence · opulence · treasure · capital · acquisitive · materialistic
- secularsecular, temporal, mundane, profane, lay
- worldlycosmopolitan, globe-trotter, globetrotter, cultured, sophisticated
- -LY wordssoftly, loudly, quickly, slowly, happily
- intelligencesmart, IQ, memory, bright, clever
- street smartsstreet smarts, savvy, resourceful, resourcefulness, cunning
- Jehovah's WitnessesJehovah's Witnesses, Jehovah, Kingdom Hall, Watchtower, disfellowshipping
worldlynaive
Innocently unsuspecting
innocent · inexperienced · unworldly · guileless · ingenuous
worldlyspiritual
Relating to the soul
otherworldly · heavenly · religious · ecclesiastic · transcendent
worldlyprovincial
Regional or narrow-minded
parochial · rustic · insular · small-town · rural
- around the worldEncircling the entire planet
- whole worldAll that exists
- end of the worldComplete destruction of everything
- the whole worldAll of Earth's inhabitants
- world recordHighest documented achievement globally
- out of this worldSlang for exceptionally remarkable
world, otherworldly, unworldly, worldliness, unworldliness, worldlier, worldliest, worldly-wise