ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Worldwise

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Worldwise is an adjective meaning Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.

Meaning

Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.

Example Sentences

Experience that’s worldwide and worldwise. It’s a difference that’s helped us make friends with a world full of travelers.
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.
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 […]
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.

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Related dictionary entries include world-wise, worldly-wise, wise, waywise, way-wise, weatherwise.

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