All English words - page 6517

Meanings of World-weariness:

noun

A lack of enthusiasm, often because you have a lot of experience of life

Usage examples:

There is an air of world-weariness and dejection about him., he was staring at her with a world-wea…

Meanings of World-weary:

adjective

Someone who is world-weary is not enthusiastic about anything, often because they have had too much experience of a particular way of life

Usage examples:

15 years in the teaching profession had left him world-weary and cynical.

Meanings of Worldbeater:

noun

A person or thing that is better than all others in their field.

Usage examples:

Nirvana's second album is a world-beater

Meanings of Worldbeaters:

noun

A person or thing that is better than all others in their field.

Usage examples:

Nirvana's second album is a world-beater

Meanings of Worlded:

adjective

Containing worlds.

Meanings of Worldful:

noun

As much or as many as would fill a world. chiefly in hyperbolical use.

Meanings of Worldish:

adjective

Of or belonging to this world; characteristic of the world, worldly.

Meanings of Worldless:

adjective

Free from or detached from the world; unworldly, otherworldly.

Meanings of Worldlet:

noun

A small, solid celestial object; a planetoid.

Meanings of Worldlier:

adjective

(of a person) experienced and sophisticated.

Usage examples:

She was much more worldly than nora and dismissed the slur

Meanings of Worldliest:

adjective

(of a person) experienced and sophisticated.

Usage examples:

She was much more worldly than nora and dismissed the slur

Meanings of Worldlily:

adverb

In a worldly manner.

Meanings of Worldliness:

noun

The quality of being experienced and sophisticated.

Usage examples:

Both display wisdom and worldliness of much older men

Meanings of Worldling:

noun

A cosmopolitan and sophisticated person.

Usage examples:

There she found not a weather-beaten traveller, but a well-groomed worldling

Meanings of Worldlings:

noun

A cosmopolitan and sophisticated person.

Usage examples:

There she found not a weather-beaten traveller, but a well-groomed worldling

Meanings of Worldly:

adjective

(of a person) experienced and sophisticated.

Usage examples:

She was much more worldly than nora and dismissed the slur

Meanings of Worldly-wise:

adjective

Experienced in the ways in which people behave and able to deal with most situations

Usage examples:

Tyler is remarkably worldly-wise for such a young girl.

Meanings of Worlds:

noun

The earth, together with all of its countries and peoples.

Usage examples:

He was doing his bit to save the world

plural noun

A very large degree

Usage examples:

The two men are worlds apart (= completely opposed) in their political views.

Meanings of Worldward:

adverb

Towards or in the direction of the world or worldly (rather than spiritual) concerns.

adjective

Directed towards or facing the world or worldly concerns.

Meanings of Worldwards:

adverb

Towards the world or worldly concerns; = worldward .

Meanings of Worldwide:

adjective

Extending or reaching throughout the world.

Usage examples:

Worldwide sales of television rights

adverb

Throughout the world.

Usage examples:

She travels worldwide as a consultant

Meanings of Worm:

noun

Any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.

Usage examples:

For many years only animals such as worms, leeches and midge larvae could survive.

verb

Move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling.

Usage examples:

I wormed my way along the roadside ditch

abbreviation

Write-once read-many, denoting a type of memory device.

Meanings of Worm-eaten:

adjective

Containing small holes that were made by the young of particular types of insect, especially woodworm

Usage examples:

A worm-eaten table/beam

Meanings of Worm-out:

phrasal verb

To try and get information from someone that they are trying to keep secret

Usage examples:

He wasn't going to tell me, but i managed to worm it out of him.

Meanings of Worm-something-out-of-someone:

phrasal verb

To try and get information from someone that they are trying to keep secret

Usage examples:

He wasn't going to tell me, but i managed to worm it out of him.