worldwise

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.
    — 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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more worldwise comparative most worldwise superlative world-wise alternative

词源

From Middle English worldwis, from Old English woruldwīs (“worldwise, worldly-wise, learned”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]; compare Middle Dutch wereltwijs (Dutch wereldwijs), Old High German weraltwīs. By surface analysis, world + wise.
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