Usually means: Experienced or knowledgeable about life.
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  1. worldly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. worldly: Merriam-Webster
  3. worldly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. worldly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. worldly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. worldly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Worldly, worldly: Wordnik
  8. worldly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. worldly: Wiktionary
  10. worldly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. worldly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. worldly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. worldly: Dictionary.com
  14. worldly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. worldly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Worldly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Worldly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. worldly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. worldly: Rhymezone
  20. Worldly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. worldly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. worldly: FreeDictionary.org
  23. worldly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. worldly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worldly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worldly: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. worldly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (worldly)

▸ adjective:  Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
▸ adjective:  Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
▸ adjective:  Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
▸ adverb:  In a worldly manner.

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mundane, temporal, economic, terrestrial, sophisticated, mercenary, materialistic, material, blase, profane, more...

Opposite:
spiritual, ascetic, unworldly, heavenly, ethereal

Types:
material, spiritual, unworldly, worldly-minded, unworldly-minded, more...

Phrases:
worldly goods, worldly wisdom, worldly possessions, worldly wealth, worldly wise, more...

Adjectives:
more, other, little, own, mere, this, external, selfish, pungent, proud, mundane

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Similar:
mundane, temporal, economic, terrestrial, sophisticated, mercenary, materialistic, material, blase, profane, more...

Opposite:
spiritual, ascetic, unworldly, heavenly, ethereal

Types:
material, spiritual, unworldly, worldly-minded, unworldly-minded, more...

Phrases:
worldly goods, worldly wisdom, worldly possessions, worldly wealth, worldly wise, worldly belongings, worldly minded, worldly concern, worldly possession, worldly mindedness, this worldly, worldly good, more...

Adjectives:
more, other, little, own, mere, this, external, selfish, pungent, proud, mundane

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     emerald,     sapphire, more...



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