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worldwise

worldwise adjective: knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.

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
    • An older and more world-wise man might have been puzzled by her varying moods, her sudden prejudices, her quick resentment at all constraint and authority.1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 12, in The White Company, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1909, page 141

worldwise meaning in Hindi

worldwise in Hindi

worldwise
दुनियादार duniyādār

Forms of worldwise

comparativemore worldwise
superlativemost worldwise
alternative formworld-wise

Origin of worldwise

From Middle English worldwis, from Old English woruldwīs (“worldwise, worldly-wise, learned”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]; compare Middle Dutch wereltwijs (Dutch wereldwijs), Old High German weraltwīs. By surface analysis, world + wise.

Words formed from worldwise

Questions about worldwise

What does worldwise mean?
Worldwise means knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.
What is worldwise in Hindi?
Worldwise in Hindi is दुनियादार (duniyādār). See Worldwise meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is worldwise?
Worldwise is an adjective.

Words near worldwise in the dictionary

  1. worldweary
  2. worldwide
  3. worldwidely
  4. worldwideness
  5. worldwisdom
  6. worldwise
  7. worldy
  8. Worle
  9. Worleston
  10. Worley
  11. Worleys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: worldwise (page history and authors); दुनियादार (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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