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| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, nonreligious |
| Synonyms: | carnal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, human, lay, materialistic, mundane, natural, physical, practical, profane, secular, temporal, terrestrial, ungodly, sublunary, telluric, terrene |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, otherworldly, religious |
| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sophisticated, materialistic |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, blasé, callous, cool*, cosmopolitan, covetous, disenchanted, grasping, greedy, hardened, knowing, practical, self-centered, selfish, unprincipled, urbane, been around, opportunistic, power-loving, uptown, worldly wise |
| Antonyms: | low, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blasé |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonchalant |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, bored, cool*, disenchanted, fed up*, indifferent, jaded, knowing, laid-back*, lukewarm*, mellow*, mundane, offhand, sophisticated, unconcerned, uninterested, unmoved, weary, worldly, been around twice, cloyed, disentranced, done it all, glutted, satiated, sick of, sophisticate, surfeited, unexcited, world-weary |
| Antonyms: | enthusiastic, excited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | carnal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erotic, sensual |
| Synonyms: | animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, impure, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful, physical, prurient, salacious, sensuous, temporal, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, worldly, genital, unchaste, venereal |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, intellectual, pure, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | cosmopolitan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldly-wise |
| Synonyms: | catholic, cultured, ecumenical, global, gregarious, metropolitan, planetary, polished, public, smooth, sophisticated, universal, urbane, worldly, worldwide, cultivated, well-travelled |
| Antonyms: | country, rural, rustic |
| Main Entry: | disenchanted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | let down |
| Synonyms: | blasé, cynical, disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, indifferent, jaundiced, knowing, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise, disenthralled, disentranced, mondaine, out of love, sick of, sophisticate, soured, undeceived |
| Antonyms: | enchanted, encouraged |
| Main Entry: | disillusioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disappointed |
| Synonyms: | blasé, broken, disenchanted, embittered, enlightened, freed, indifferent, knowing, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise, brought down to earth, debunked, disabused, disenthralled, disentranced, let-down, mondaine, out of love, punctured, sadder and wiser, shattered, undeceived |
| Antonyms: | enchanted, encouraged, enthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | experienced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knowledgeable, knowing |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, accustomed, adept, been around, been there, broken in, capable, competent, cultivated, dynamite, expert, familiar, having something on the ball, in the know, instructed, knowing one's stuff, knowing the score, mature, matured, old, old hand*, practical, practiced, pro, professional, qualified, rounded, seasoned, skillful, sophisticated, sport, tested, the right stuff, trained, tried, versed, vet, veteran, well-versed, wise, worldly, worldly-wise |
| Antonyms: | green, ignorant, immature, inexperienced, unfamiliar, unknowledgeable, unseasoned, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced, aware |
| Synonyms: | alive, apprehensive, astute, awake, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, clever, cognizant, competent, conscious, conversant, cool*, crack*, deliberate, discerning, expert, insightful, intelligent, intended, intentional, judicious, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive, qualified, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sage, sensible, sentient, sharp, skillful, slick*, smart, sophisticated, vigilant, watchful, well-informed, wise, worldly, worldly-wise, percipient, sophic, tuned-in, with-it, witting |
| Antonyms: | inexperienced, unaware, unknowing, uncognizant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mundane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
| Synonyms: | banal, commonplace, earthly, everyday, humdrum*, lowly, normal, prosaic, routine, worldly, day-to-day, workaday, workday |
| Antonyms: | exciting, extraordinary, heavenly, supernatural, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | not born yesterday |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced |
| Synonyms: | canny, cunning, on the ball*, savvy, seasoned, trained, unbelieving, wise, worldly, battle-scarred, been around |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | profane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion |
| Synonyms: | abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty*, temporal, transient, transitory, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, vulgar, wicked, worldly, irreverential, profanatory, unconsecrated, unsanctified |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, sacred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seasoned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adept, competent, expert, familiar, hardened, instructed, knowledgeable, matured, old hand*, practiced, prepared, pro, professional, qualified, skillful, tested, trained, tried, veteran, wise, worldly, battle-scarred, been around, been there, toughened, vet, weathered, worldly wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | secular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not spiritual or religious |
| Synonyms: | civil, earthly, laic, lay, material, materialistic, nonreligious, profane, temporal, worldly, laical, nonclerical, of this world, unsacred |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | godly, holy, religious, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | suave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming, smooth |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, bland, civilized, cordial, courteous, courtly, cultured, diplomatic, fulsome, genial, glib, gracious, ingratiating, obliging, oily*, pleasant, pleasing, polished, polite, politic, refined, sociable, soft*, soft-spoken, sophisticated, unctuous, urbane, well-bred, worldly, cultivated, distingué, smooth-tongued |
| Antonyms: | awkward, clumsy, unpolished, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthy, global, mundane, physical, profane, prosaic, secular, temporal, worldly, earthbound, earthlike, sublunary, subsolar, telluric, terrene, uncelestial, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | cosmic, heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | universal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldwide, entire |
| Synonyms: | accepted, all, all-inclusive, astronomical, broad, catholic, celestial, common, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, customary, diffuse, ecumenical, empyrean, extensive, general, generic, global, multinational, mundane, omnipresent, planetary, prevalent, regular, stellar, sweeping, terrestrial, total, ubiquitous, undisputed, unlimited, unrestricted, usual, whole, widespread, worldly, all-embracing, all-over |
| Antonyms: | confined, local, partial, particular |
| Main Entry: | veteran |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced, seasoned |
| Synonyms: | adept, battle-scarred, been around, disciplined, exercised, expert, from way back, hardened, inured, knows one's stuff, long-serving, long-time, not born yesterday*, of the old school, old, old-time, practical, practiced, pro*, proficient, skilled, sophisticated, steady, trained, up to speed, versed, vet, weathered, wise, wise to ways, worldly |
| Antonyms: | amateur, green, inexperienced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | street-smart |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to survive city |
| Synonyms: | astute, cunning, experienced, hardened, on the ball, quick-witted, savvy, seasoned, shrewd, worldly, streetwise |
| Antonyms: | inexperienced, naïve |
| Main Entry: | worldly-wise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced in life |
| Synonyms: | aware, cosmopolitan, cultured, enlightened, experienced, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, mature, seasoned, sophisticated, urbane, worldly, cultivated |
| Antonyms: | inexperienced, simple, unsophisticated, naïve |
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