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"worldly goods and advancement"adjectivecharacteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
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"the benefits of his worldly wisdom"adjectivevery sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world
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Definition that contains worldly
- material concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
- naive marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
- economic concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
- sophisticated having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire
- mundane concerned with the world or worldly matters
- terrestrial concerned with the world or worldly matters
- sophistication the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- austerity the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
- sophisticate a worldly-wise person
- asceticism the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state