worldly wise

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Sense: Lacking spirituality or idealism

Synonyms:

mundane , ungodly, matter-of-fact, practical , secular , profane, strategic, money-making, unprincipled, power-loving, self-centered, opportunistic, sophisticated , money-grubbing, sordid, material , earthy

Antonyms:

extraordinary , childlike, unrefined, unsophisticated, unworldly, utopian, raw , simple-minded, naive , outlandish, quirky

Sense: Referring to life on the earth

Synonyms:

terrestrial, earthly, sublunary, mundane , human , natural , temporal

Antonyms:

heavenly , spiritual, interplanetary, alien , otherworldly, immaterial, religious , extraterrestrial, cosmic, stellar, celestial, supernatural, out of space

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