worldlier

Adjective

worldly (comparative worldlier or more worldly, superlative worldliest or most worldly)

1. Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
   • These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no...1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip

   Synonyms:

   material, mundane, sublunar, terrene

   Antonyms:

   otherworldly, spiritual

2. Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

   Synonyms:

   lay, profane, temporal, areligious, civil, earthly, irreligious, laicist, laicistic, mundane

   Antonyms:

   clerical, religious, sacred

3. Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
   • Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the...2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club

   Synonyms:

   sophisticated, street-smart

   Antonyms:

   naive

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