worldly

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. experienced, sophisticated; earthly, mundane; terrestrial; profane, secular, carnal; sordid, mercenary; proud, selfish, material, materialistic, unspiritual, irreligious. See selfishness, irreligion.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Lacking spirituality or idealism]

Syn. mundane, earthly, ungodly, matter-of-fact, practical, secular, profane, strategic, grubbing, money-making, unprincipled, power-loving, self-centered, opportunistic, sophisticated.

Ant. spiritual*, religious, idealistic.

2. [Referring to life on the earth]

Syn. terrestrial, earthly, sublunary, mundane, telluric, human, natural, temporal.

See Synonym Study at earthly .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. earthly terrestrial, mundane, material, human, fleshly, physical.

2. sophisticated experienced, worldly-wise, knowing, learned, urbane, cosmopolitan, *wise in the ways of the world.

ANT.: 1. spiritual, heavenly, divine, godly. 2. inexperienced, unsophisticated, naive

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Relating to or characteristic of the earth or of human life on earth: earthbound, earthen, earthly, earthy, mundane, secular, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial. See BODY, CULTURE, PLACE. 2. Not religious in subject matter, form, or use: lay2, profane, secular, temporal. See SACRED. 3. Experienced in the ways of the world; lacking natural simplicity: cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly-wise. See KNOWLEDGE.