Qualities
Synonyms for worldly
Synonyms for worldly: blase and temporal. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for worldly
Interchangeable with worldly in this sense
Audited under worldly's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one worldly carries in that sense.
- blaseadjective, in the sense "very sophisticated especially because of surfeit"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name worldly as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- temporaltemporal is an adjective in the sense "characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world"
The first group is filed under worldly's own sense. The second reaches worldly from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
very sophisticated especially because of surfeit
Years of travel left her worldly and hard to impress.
The true synonym
blase
Same sentence, swapped: Years of travel left her blase and hard to impress.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- temporal
- sensual
- bodily
Where worldly turns up in the game
worldly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where worldly is the trap
- reprobateadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is perverse, in the sense "deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good", so worldly is there to be ruled out.
Play worldly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so worldly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
worldly is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.