Worldly
Meaning of Worldly
Concerned with material things; experienced.
ما معنى كلمة Worldly بالعربي؟
دنيوي أو مادي
🌏💰 دنيوي أو مادي يهتم بالأمور الدنيوية والمصالح المالية أكثر من الأمور الروحية أو المعنوية 💰🏙️
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Synonyms & related words
Worldly in a sentence
Worldly goals were surveyed.
Worldly buyers want quality.
Worldly goods pass by will.
Pupils discuss worldly wisdom.
Origin of Worldly
From world + -ly.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, worldly has two senses. GL lessons cover both.
Worldly audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is worldly — an adjective, pronounced WURLD-lee, IPA /ˈwɜːld.li/.
Narrator: Worldly has two main senses: experienced and sophisticated in the ways of life, or concerned with material rather than spiritual things.
Narrator: Plain English: a worldly person is wise to how the world works; worldly goods are your material possessions, not spiritual ones.
Narrator: It's built from world plus the ending -ly, here forming an adjective meaning of or relating to the world.
Narrator: It comes straight from the Old English sense of world as human, earthly life — so worldly means belonging to that earthly life.
Narrator: Historically it often contrasted with the spiritual or holy — worldly pleasures set against heavenly ones.
Narrator: Today the admiring sense is common too — a worldly traveller is cultured, knowing, and experienced in life.
Narrator: The register is fairly formal and literary, with a thoughtful, sometimes moral flavour depending on which sense you mean.
Narrator: Worldly is being of this world — wise in its ways, or attached to its goods, depending on how you mean it.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: My grandfather was such a worldly man — travelled everywhere, spoke four languages. Genuinely worldly and wise.
Speaker B: That's the lovely sense of worldly — experienced, cultured, knowing how the world works. A worldly person you can learn from.
Speaker A: Exactly. Though it has the other meaning too, doesn't it? Like worldly possessions.
Speaker B: It does — there worldly means material, earthly. All his worldly goods, meaning everything he physically owned. That sense often contrasts with the spiritual.
Speaker A: So one sense is admiring, the other more about material things.
Speaker B: Right. Context tells you. A worldly traveller is a compliment; worldly desires might be a gentle criticism.
Speaker A: What's the difference between worldly and sophisticated?
Speaker B: Sophisticated leans towards refined taste and polish. Worldly leans towards real-life experience and knowing how things work. You can be worldly without being sophisticated, and the other way round.
Speaker A: So worldly is more about lived experience.
Speaker B: Nicely put. And it's spelled W-O-R-L-D-L-Y — world plus ly. Not wordly; keep that L from world.
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's look at how worldly works in AI prompts. As a word for experience it's great for personas, tone, and rich content.
Speaker A: Worldly as a knowing voice — the AI writes with experience and breadth?
Speaker B: Exactly. It sets a cultured, seasoned tone. First prompt — a chatbot persona:
Prompt: Give my travel chatbot a worldly persona. Make it sound experienced and well-travelled, share worldly tips from around the globe, and keep its worldly tone warm and never boastful.
Speaker B: Worldly tells the AI to sound seasoned and knowing — a guide who's truly been everywhere.
Speaker A: The persona is clear. What about content?
Speaker B: Here:
Prompt: Write a worldly guide to dining etiquette. Cover customs from many cultures with a worldly, well-travelled tone, and explain each one simply so even a beginner feels worldly afterwards.
Speaker A: A worldly etiquette guide — rich. For a recommendation engine?
Speaker B: Try this:
Prompt: Build a book recommender for worldly readers. Suggest titles that broaden the mind, tag each as worldly or local, and help users build a more worldly reading list over time.
Speaker A: A worldly reading list — clever. For a profile feature?
Speaker B: Like this:
Prompt: Add a worldly badge to user profiles. Award it when someone has visited many countries in the app, label them worldly, and show how worldly each member has become as they explore.
Speaker A: A worldly badge — motivating. And a writing helper?
Speaker B: Here:
Prompt: Build a tool that rewrites text in a worldly voice. Take a plain paragraph and give it a worldly, cultured tone, adding a sense of broad experience while keeping the meaning clear.
Speaker A: A worldly rewriting tool — useful.
Speaker B: One refined word for experience. Use worldly in a prompt and the AI brings a cultured, seasoned tone to your content.
Frequently asked questions about Worldly
What does Worldly mean?
Concerned with material things; experienced.
ما معنى كلمة Worldly بالعربي؟
دنيوي أو مادي — 🌏💰 دنيوي أو مادي يهتم بالأمور الدنيوية والمصالح المالية أكثر من الأمور الروحية أو المعنوية 💰🏙️
How do you pronounce Worldly?
Worldly is pronounced /ˈwɜːldli/ and is used as an adjective.
How is Worldly used in a sentence?
Worldly goals were surveyed.
What are synonyms of Worldly?
material, earthly, secular, sophisticated, experienced, urbane.