worldly
worldly is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- 3.With relation to this life; in a worldly manner. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnostic
- agnosticism
- alien
- antichristian
- antichristianity
- atheism
- atheist
- atheistic
- belief
- bout
- carnal
- dechristianize
- deism
- deist
- deistical
- devoutless
- disbelief
- disbelieve
- doubt
- earthly
- faith
- faithless
- fort
- freethinker
- freethinking
- gentile
- giaour
- godless
- graceless
- heathen
- hylotheism
- incredulity
- incredulous
- incredulousness
- indevotion
- indevout
- infidel
- infidelity
- irreligion
- irreligious
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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