What is another word for worldlier?

Pronunciation: [wˈɜːldliə] (IPA)

"Worldlier" is a term used to describe someone who is sophisticated and experienced in worldly matters. Synonyms for this word include cosmopolitan, cultured, knowledgeable, urbane, refined, and worldly-wise. Cosmopolitan refers to someone who is well-traveled and knowledgeable about different cultures and societies. Cultured implies a person with an appreciation of arts, literature, and general refinement. Knowledgeable and worldly-wise describe an individual with a great deal of experience and understanding of the world and its workings. Refined indicates elegance and distinction in taste and manners while urbane connotes sophistication and social grace. All of these words can be used interchangeably with the word "worldlier" to depict someone who is worldly and well-rounded.

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Usage examples for Worldlier

This was a question requiring a worldlier woman than Paula long to hold in mind.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
Only at their age one thinks of students as being all hail-fellow-well-met with each other-" "Yes; it's hard to realise how conventional they are-how very much worldlier than the world-till one sees it as one does in Cambridge.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
She felt too deeply that she loved him; and, ignorant of his worldlier qualities, imagined that he loved her with all the devotion of that romance, and the ardour of that genius, which appeared to her to compose his character.
"Godolphin, Volume 2."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Famous quotes with Worldlier

  • So Anthony Burgess, contrary to popular mythology, was not after all a literary genius, a novelist of world-encompassing ambition, an essayist who assessed literary reputations with the final-word gravitas of a Recording Angel; nor was he a polymath and polyglot as we'd thought, a synthesiser of all mythologies, a walking compendium of modern thought, philosophy and theology, phrase and fable, a cigar-puffing, apoplectic Dr Johnson de nos jours, a monumental figure about whom it was said when he died in 1993, that (as Thackeray said about Swift) 'thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling'. Nope, we were all wide of the mark. Don't you hate it when you get these things completely wrong?....Seen through [Lewis's] eyes, Burgess was a mendacious, drunken, impotent, vain, emotionless, puffed-up, talentless clown who neglected his first wife as she spiralled fatally into alcoholism, who lived abroad to avoid paying tax, and nursed a sentimental chip on his shoulder about not being sufficiently respected by the British establishment....In the presence of a genuinely great man, something odd happens to you - you feel older and wiser, worldlier and cleverer, and pleased with yourself just for being in his company....He was the sort of man who made you feel like cheering just because he existed, and there's nobody remotely like him around today. There are, unfortunately, more than enough Roger Lewises.
    Anthony Burgess

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