English Dictionary

worldly

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɜː(ɹ)ldli/

形容詞

Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual. / Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

日本語の意味

人間や地上の事柄に関心があり、精神的なものではなく、物質的または現実的な性質を指す。 / 神聖なものではなく、世俗的な、または俗世間の事柄に関連する。

After years of travel, she found that worldly possessions could not bring her lasting happiness.

長年の旅を経て、彼女は物質的な所有物が永続的な幸福をもたらさないことに気づいた。

意味（1）

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

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.

意味（2）

Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

意味（3）

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

Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the joys of getting busy in a windmill.

worldlier （ comparative ）

more worldly （ comparative ）

worldliest （ superlative ）

most worldly （ superlative ）