worldy

comparative more worldy · superlative most worldy

1. rareSynonym of worldly.

   For these worldy advantages you offer, I will sell you my body and my soul.

   1919, Marguerite Stockman Dickson, Vocational Guidance for Girls

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   Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns.

   1992 November 27, Ted Shen, “Yo-Yo Ma”, in Chicago Reader

   Already on her second marriage when she met Chandler, she was worldy, sexually wise and 18 years his senior, a fact he apparently didn’t know until after they were married.

   2007 December 30, Tom Shone, “The Big Sleepover”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: worldly

plural worldies

1. UKalternativeslangAlternative form of worldie (“anything particularly excellent of its kind”).