Worldy vs. Worldly

Worldyadjective

(rare) worldly

Worldlyadjective

Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.

Worldlyadjective

Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

Worldlyadjective

Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

Worldlyadverb

In a worldly manner.

Worldlyadjective

Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.

‘Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it.’;

Worldlyadjective

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.’;

Worldlyadjective

Lay, as opposed to clerical.

Worldlyadverb

With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

‘Subverting worldly strong and worldly wiseBy simply meek.’;

Worldlyadjective

characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world;

‘worldly goods and advancement’;

Worldlyadjective

very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world;

‘the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'’; ‘the benefits of his worldly wisdom’;

Worldlyadjective

concerned with secular rather than sacred matters;

‘lords temporal and spiritual’;