Word Meanings - WORLDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
Additional info about word: WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men. With his soul fled all my worldly solace. Shak. 3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. Chaucer.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WORLDLY)
- Carnal
- Fleshly
- sensual
- selfindulgent
- licentious
- animal
- coarse
- base
- worldly
- impure
- libidinous
- secular
- Mundane
- Worldly
- temporal
- earthly
- Secular
- profane
- civil
- unmonastic
- laic
- Selfish
- Egotistical
- self-minded
- self-indulgent
- self-worshipful
- illiberal
- ungenerous
- narrowminded
- mercenary
- greedy
- Temporal
- political
- transient
- fleeting
- laical
- terrestrial
- sublunary
- mundane
Related words: (words related to WORLDLY)
- CARNALIST
A sensualist. Burton. - TEMPORALNESS
Worldliness. Cotgrave. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
Grossness of mind. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ILLIBERALISM
Illiberality. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - SELFISHLY
In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. - COARSE
was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts - MUNDANE
Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor. (more info) toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. mansds - LAICALITY
The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - WORLDLY-MINDED
Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. - SELFISHNESS
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without - SENSUALISTIC
1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism. - ILLIBERALNESS
The state of being illiberal; illiberality. - UNGENEROUSLY
In an ungenerous manner. - SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are - OVERGREEDY
Excessively greedy. - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - INCIVIL
Uncivil; rude. Shak. - METROPOLITICAL
Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.