worldly

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
2. Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
3. Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

Adv

In a worldly manner.

Concepts

mondain

terrestre

laïque

huppé

temporel

⌚

voluptueux

animalier

🐾

animal

🐾

charnel

animale

érotique

sensuel

Opposé de

otherworldly, spiritual, clerical, religious, sacred, naive

Synonymes

mundane

secular

earthly

temporal

material

terrestrial

fleshly

blase

sophisticated

worldly-wise

earthy

human

profane

sublunary

universal

worldly-minded

experienced

of this world

old

🧓

ordinary

physical

popular

posh

practiced

mammonish

seasoned

everyday

secularistic

senior

sensual

crested

sublunar

given up to the world

cosmic

terrene

coarse

transmigratory

tried

unconsecrated

experient

versed

vulgar

secular vulgar

classy

cupid

💘

laic

lay

life

irreligious

Traductions

mundano

mondano

mundano

weltlich

terreno

werelds

irdisch

wereldlijk

κοσμικός

seculier

wereldwijs

mundà

aards

materieel

laico

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɜː(ɹ)ldli/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: worldly

Hérité de ancien anglais: woruldlīċ

Appartenant à néerlandais: wereldlijk

Appartenant à allemand: weltlich

Appartenant à danois: verdslig

Appartenant à suédois: världslig

Appartenant à islandais: veraldlegur

Hérité de ancien anglais: woroldlīċe

In summary

From Middle English worldly, worldlich, wordly (adjective), from Old English woruldlīċ, worldlīċ, weoroldlīċ (“worldly; earthly; temporal; mundane; secular”), from Proto-Germanic *weraldilīkaz, equivalent to world + -ly. Cognate with Dutch wereldlijk (“worldly; secular”), German Low German weltlik (“worldly”), German weltlich (“worldly”), Danish verdslig (“worldly”), Swedish världslig (“worldly”), Icelandic veraldlegur (“worldly; secular”).