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WURLDL-ee/ˈwɜːldli/

Worldly means experienced in life, or concerned with money and possessions rather than spiritual things: worldly wisdom, worldly goods. Naive sits opposite; polish in a film is comms, not methods.

Meaning

Experienced in life; also concerned with money and possessions rather than spiritual things.

Examples

• “Worldly polish in the film is not a methods section.”
• “Sophisticated is a cousin. Material is the possessions sense. A film is branding. An n is a number. Put the n first; then the polish.”

Good to know

Experienced, or concerned with material life. Close: sophisticated. Polish ≠ methods.

Near in meaning

sophisticated

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