One entry found for worldly-wise.

Entry Word: worldly-wise
Function: adjective
Text: having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience <having followed their father on his military assignments all over the world, the Johnson kids have become very worldly-wise>
Synonyms cosmopolitan, smart, sophisticated, worldly
Related Words suave, urbane; civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined; experienced, knowing, practiced, schooled, seasoned; bored, cynical, jaded, skeptical; down-to-earth, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober
Near Antonyms callow, green, inexperienced, raw; parochial, provincial, rustic; philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined; childlike, simple, simpleminded; idealistic, impractical; uncritical, unknowing
Antonyms ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed