WORLDLY-WISE Synonyms

• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

• mentally quick and resourceful

• showing inventiveness and skill

• growing or occurring in many parts of the world

• composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests

• a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

• of worldwide scope or applicability

• marked by skill in deception

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• quick to understand

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

• having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation

• exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• alert and fully informed

• thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

• of or relating to perception

• having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• acting with a specific goal

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing

• having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

• a way of doing or being

• United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

• United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• evidencing the possession of inside information

• improperly forward or bold

• characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

• very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world