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world-wise

world-wise is the alternative form of worldwise.

Meaning of worldwise

Adjective

worldwise (comparative more worldwise, superlative most worldwise)

  1. Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.
    • Those who are highly conceited, illuminated, and world-wise, hate, envy, scandalize, defame and persecute this Mystery to the utmost Rind, or innermost Kernel, which hath its beginning out of the Center […]1671, Basilius Valentinus, chapter 3, in Daniel Cable, transl., Of Natural and Supernatural Things, London: Moses Pitt, page 50

Forms of world-wise

comparativemore world-wise
superlativemost world-wise

Questions about world-wise

What is world-wise the alternative form of?
World-wise is the alternative form of worldwise.

Words near world-wise in the dictionary

  1. world-wearier
  2. world-weariest
  3. world-weariness
  4. world-weary
  5. world-wide
  6. world-wise
  7. worldbeat
  8. worldbeater
  9. worldbeaters
  10. worldbeating
  11. worldbound

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