| 单词 | worldly |
| 释义 | worldly (once / 418 pages) adj You can use the adjective worldly to describe people who have knowledge of many topics or experience in many areas. You don't have to travel the globe to be worldly; reading and talking about many things with knowledge and enthusiasm is worldly too. While worldly often describes individuals who are sophisticated and well-rounded in education, travel, and experiences, it's also used for people who are rooted in the world or focused on physical and material things around them, rather than on spiritual matters. An old expression in religion is "She was too heavenly minded for worldly good," and it describes those who think about the spiritual or supernatural so much that they aren't worldly enough to get anything done. WORD FAMILYworldly: unworldly, worldlier, worldliest, worldliness+/underworld: underworlds/world: underworld, worldly, worlds/worldliness: worldlinesses USAGE EXAMPLES“There’s a gritty, worldly insolence to them, and a sense of power,” he said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) This education seemed to be conducted via a vein that formed between the naive and worldly slime molds after two or three hours of fusion. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) By the standards of basketball coaches, they were worldly men with interests far beyond the court. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1adj characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world worldly goods and advancement Syn|Ant secular, temporal earthly of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven profane, secularnot concerned with or devoted to religion sophisticatedhaving or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire economicconcerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money) materialconcerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests materialistic, mercenary, worldly-mindedmarked by materialism mundane, terrestrialconcerned with the world or worldly matters unworldly not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations pioushaving or showing or expressing reverence for a deity naif, naivemarked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermiticalcharacterized by ascetic solitude cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monasticalof communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows spiritual, unearthlyconcerned with or affecting the spirit or soul unmercenarynot mercenary; not influenced by financial gains 2adj very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world the benefits of his worldly wisdom Syn blase sophisticated having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire |
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