worldly

[US]/'wɜːldlɪ/
[UK]/'wɝldli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. pertaining to the world or earthly affairs; concerned with the affairs of this world
adv. in a manner that is concerned with worldly affairs or secular matters

Phrases & Collocations

worldly possessions

worldly pleasures

worldly success

Example Sentences

music of an almost other-worldly beauty.

his ambitions for worldly success.

Are spiritual or worldly values more important?

celibate clerics with a very other-worldly outlook.

Lisa was sufficiently worldly-wise to understand the situation.

schools where parents send children as a preparative for worldly success.

He bequeathed her all his worldly goods.

She forsook her worldly possessions to devote herself to the church.

mythographers normally moralize Narcissus as the man who wastes himself in pursuing worldly goods.

He carried all his worldly possessions in an old hold-all.

The Essenes had no slaves nor servants, and lived communally, sharing worldly goods;

Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner climbs the rocks of his native country? then be worldly;

Not untill this time did I realize that such love is not so dolor, for it has no worldly involvement, no long-winded succession, no gingerbready samite, and no muddy water.

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