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.
• 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
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• 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.