worldly

B2 大学 FREQ #14473 ★☆☆☆☆

a. 世间的, 世俗的, 世上的

发音

US /ˈwɜː(ɹ)ldli/

词形变化

worldlier 比较级 worldlier worldliest more worldly 比较级 worldliest 最高级 most worldly 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

世俗的；世间的；尘世的

副词

世俗地；世故地

释义与例句

adj. B2
  1. 1.

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

    1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip, These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.

  2. 2.

    Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

  3. 3.

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

adv.
  1. 1.

    In a worldly manner.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

temporal secular blase

反义词 1

unworldly

近义相关 7

material economic sophisticated mercenary mundane terrestrial materialistic

参见 4

sophisticated earthly secular profane

相关短语

worldly wise

词源

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”).

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