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Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
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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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characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"
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concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"
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Lay, as opposed to clerical.
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With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
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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"
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