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Adjective worldly has 3 senses
- worldly - characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"
Antonyms: unworldly, anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical, cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical, spiritual, unearthly, unmercenary
- blase, worldly - very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
Antonyms: naive, naif (indirect, via sophisticated)
- temporal, worldly - concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"
Antonym: sacred (indirect, via profane)
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