Usually means: Experienced and knowledgeable about life.
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  1. worldly-wise: Merriam-Webster
  2. worldly-wise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. worldly-wise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. worldly-wise, worldly-wise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. worldly-wise: Vocabulary.com
  6. worldly-wise: Wordnik
  7. worldly-wise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. worldly-wise: Wiktionary
  9. worldly-wise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. worldly-wise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. worldly-wise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. worldly-wise: Dictionary.com
  13. worldly-wise: Rhymezone
  14. worldly-wise: FreeDictionary.org
  15. worldly-wise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. worldly-wise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. worldly-wise: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Experienced in the ways of the world; sophisticated and cosmopolitan.

Similar:
sophisticated, worldwise, world-wise, wise, way-wise, waywise, socially fluent, well up, as wise as an owl, culturewise, more...

Opposite:
naive, inexperienced, unsophisticated, innocent

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Similar:
sophisticated, worldwise, world-wise, wise, way-wise, waywise, socially fluent, well up, as wise as an owl, culturewise, more...

Opposite:
naive, inexperienced, unsophisticated, innocent



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