Definition of worldly

"worldly" in the adjective sense

1. worldly, secular, temporal

characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

"worldly goods and advancement"

"temporal possessions of the church"

2. blase, worldly

very sophisticated especially because of surfeit versed in the ways of the world

"the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"

"the benefits of his worldly wisdom"

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Quotations for worldly

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord. [ Rich. II ]

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. [ Quarles ]

All worldly happiness consists in opinion. [ Proverb ]

Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings.
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things. [ Wm. Blake ]

It is in worldly accidents.
As in the world itself, where things most distant
Meet one another: Thus the east and west.
Upon the globe a mathematical point
Only divides: Thus happiness and misery.
And all extremes, are still contiguous. [ Denham ]

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. [ Carlyle ]

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. [ Hare ]

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. [ Emerson ]

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain. [ Quarles ]

All worldly profit, all pleasure is correspondent to a like measure of anxiety or wearisomeness. [ Proverb ]

Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it. [ Addison ]

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. [ Sterne ]

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. [ Tillotson ]

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. [ Colton ]

The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death. [ William Shakespeare ]

Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor. [ Dryden ]

Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]

To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. [ W. Irving ]

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. [ Bishop Hall ]

No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. [ E. H. Chapin ]

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. [ Longfellow ]

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]

When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]

worldly in Scrabble®

The word worldly is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters worldly:

WORLDLY
(106 = 56 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

worldly

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word worldly

WORLDLY
(106 = 56 + 50)
WORLDLY
(104 = 54 + 50)
WORLDLY
(104 = 54 + 50)
WORLDLY
(98 = 48 + 50)
WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
(95 = 45 + 50)
WORLDLY
(95 = 45 + 50)
WORLDLY
(92 = 42 + 50)
WORLDLY
(90 = 40 + 50)
WORLDLY
(88 = 38 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(82 = 32 + 50)
WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
(80 = 30 + 50)
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
(74 = 24 + 50)
WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
(73 = 23 + 50)
WORLDLY
(70 = 20 + 50)
WORLDLY
(69 = 19 + 50)
WORLDLY
(68 = 18 + 50)
WORLDLY
(67 = 17 + 50)
WORLDLY
(66 = 16 + 50)
WORLDLY
(66 = 16 + 50)
WORLDLY
(66 = 16 + 50)
WORLDLY
(66 = 16 + 50)
WORLDLY
(65 = 15 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In worldly

WORLDLY
(106 = 56 + 50)
WORLDLY
(104 = 54 + 50)
WORLDLY
(104 = 54 + 50)
WORLDLY
(98 = 48 + 50)
WORLDLY
(95 = 45 + 50)
WORLDLY
(95 = 45 + 50)
WORLDLY
(95 = 45 + 50)
WORLDLY
(95 = 45 + 50)
WORLDLY
(95 = 45 + 50)
WORLDLY
(92 = 42 + 50)
WORLDLY
(90 = 40 + 50)
WORLDLY
(88 = 38 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(86 = 36 + 50)
WORLDLY
(82 = 32 + 50)
WORLDLY
(82 = 32 + 50)
WORLDLY
(82 = 32 + 50)
WORLDLY
(82 = 32 + 50)
WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
(80 = 30 + 50)
WORLDLY
(80 = 30 + 50)
WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
(73 = 23 + 50)
WORLDLY
(70 = 20 + 50)
WORLDLY
(69 = 19 + 50)
WORLDLY
(68 = 18 + 50)
WORLDLY
(67 = 17 + 50)
WORLDLY
(66 = 16 + 50)
WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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worldly in Words With Friends™

The word worldly is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters worldly:

WORLDLY
(110 = 75 + 35)
WORLDLY
(110 = 75 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

worldly

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word worldly

WORLDLY
(110 = 75 + 35)
WORLDLY
(110 = 75 + 35)
WORLDLY
(104 = 69 + 35)
WORLDLY
(104 = 69 + 35)
WORLDLY
(98 = 63 + 35)
WORLDLY
(98 = 63 + 35)
WORLDLY
(95 = 60 + 35)
WORLDLY
(95 = 60 + 35)
WORLDLY
(95 = 60 + 35)
WORLDLY
(92 = 57 + 35)
WORLDLY
(92 = 57 + 35)
WORLDLY
(92 = 57 + 35)
WORLDLY
(86 = 51 + 35)
WORLDLY
(81 = 46 + 35)
WORLDLY
(77 = 42 + 35)
WORLDLY
(73 = 38 + 35)
WORLDLY
(73 = 38 + 35)
WORLDLY
(73 = 38 + 35)
WORLDLY
(71 = 36 + 35)
WORLDLY
(69 = 34 + 35)
WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
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WORLDLY
(67 = 32 + 35)
WORLDLY
(67 = 32 + 35)
WORLDLY
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(54 = 19 + 35)
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WORLDLY
(53 = 18 + 35)
WORLDLY
(52 = 17 + 35)
WORLDLY
(52 = 17 + 35)
WORLDLY
(52 = 17 + 35)
WORLDLY
(51 = 16 + 35)
WORLDLY
(51 = 16 + 35)
WORLDLY
(50 = 15 + 35)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In worldly

WORLDLY
(110 = 75 + 35)
WORLDLY
(110 = 75 + 35)
WORLDLY
(104 = 69 + 35)
WORLDLY
(104 = 69 + 35)
WORLDLY
(98 = 63 + 35)
WORLDLY
(98 = 63 + 35)
WORLDLY
(95 = 60 + 35)
WORLDLY
(95 = 60 + 35)
WORLDLY
(95 = 60 + 35)
WORLDLY
(92 = 57 + 35)
WORLDLY
(92 = 57 + 35)
WORLDLY
(92 = 57 + 35)
WORLDLY
(86 = 51 + 35)
WORLDLY
(81 = 46 + 35)
WORLDLY
(77 = 42 + 35)
WORLDLY
(73 = 38 + 35)
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(71 = 36 + 35)
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WORLDY
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WORLDY
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WORLDY
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Words within the letters of worldly

2 letter words in worldly (3 words)

3 letter words in worldly (9 words)

4 letter words in worldly (7 words)

5 letter words in worldly (8 words)

6 letter words in worldly (3 words)

7 letter words in worldly (1 word)

worldly + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence worldly

Words that start with worldly (1 word)

Words with worldly in them (1 word)

Words that end with worldly (3 words)

Word Growth involving worldly

Shorter words in worldly

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Longer words containing worldly

otherworldly

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