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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Philistine, banausic, blase, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, corporal, corporeal, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, disenchanted, disillusioned, down-to-earth, earthly, earthy, experienced, fleshly, hardheaded, hylic, knowing, material, materialistic, materiate, matter-of-fact, mature, matured, mondaine, mundane, nonsacred, nonspiritual, not born yesterday, old, physical, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, practiced, pragmatic, profane, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, reprobate, ripe, ripened, sagacious, sane, scientific, scientistic, seasoned, secular, sensible, sensual, sober-minded, somatic, sophisticate, sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, tried, tried and true, unblessed, unhallowed, unholy, unideal, unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic, unsacred, unsanctified, unsentimental, unspiritual, veteran, world-wise, worldly-wise
Dictionary Results for worldly:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
worldly
    adj 1: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as
           opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and
           advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church" [syn:
           worldly, secular, temporal] [ant: unworldly]
    2: 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" [syn: blase, worldly]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Worldly \World"ly\, adv.
   With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
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         Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
         By simply meek.                          --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Worldly \World"ly\, a. [AS. woroldlic.]
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   1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
      worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." --Shak.
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            Many years it hath continued, standing by no other
            worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
            it.                                   --Hooker.
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   2. 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.
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            With his soul fled all my worldly solace. --Shak.
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   3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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