What does worldwise mean?
Worldwise means Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced..
Worldwise
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced..
Example Sentences
Those who are highly conceited, illuminated, and world-wise, hate, envy, scandalize, defame and persecute this Mystery to the utmost Rind, or innermost Kernel, which hath its beginning out of the Center […]
An older and more world-wise man might have been puzzled by her varying moods, her sudden prejudices, her quick resentment at all constraint and authority.
Luttpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat on a small, obtrusive, self-important scale, sat in his favoured café in the world-wise Habsburg capital, confronted with the Neue Freie Presse and the cup of cream-topped coffee and attendant glass of water that a sleek-headed piccolo had just brought him.
Experience that’s worldwide and worldwise. It’s a difference that’s helped us make friends with a world full of travelers.
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Word Forms
- more worldwise
- most worldwise
- world-wise
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Those who are highly conceited, illuminated, and world-wise, hate, envy, scandalize, defame and persecute this Mystery to the utmost Rind, or innermost Kernel, which hath its beginning out of the Center […]
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