Innocent vs Worldly - What's the difference?
innocent | worldly |
Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
* 1606 , , IV. iii. 16:
Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
Naive; artless.
* 1600 , , V. ii. 37:
(obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
* Alexander Pope
Having no knowledge (of something).
Lacking (something).
Lawful; permitted.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
Those who are innocent; young children.
Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.
* 1868 , , Part Two, Chapter Twenty-four: Gossip,
* , Book 1: Adi Parva, Section LXXXV,
* 1889 , , Chapter VIII,
* 1910 , , Chapter 1, part 3,
Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.
Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.
As adjectives the difference between innocent and worldly
is that innocent is (pure, free from sin, untainted)Free from guilt, sin, or immorality while worldly is concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.As a noun innocent
is those who are innocent; young children.As an adverb worldly is
in a worldly manner.innocent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
- I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;
- an innocent medicine or remedy
- The spear / Sung innocent , and spent its force in air.
- an innocent trade
- innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation
Synonyms
* (free from blame or guilt) sackless * (free from sin) pure, untainted * See alsoAntonyms
* (bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act) guilty, nocentNoun
(en noun)- The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
worldly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable persons, as naturally as sweet herbs draw bees, and as naturally he gave them the honey into which fifty years of hard experience had distilled no bitter drop.
- Thirst of enjoyment, therefore, should be given up. Indeed, true happiness belongeth to them that have cast off their thirst for worldly objects--a thirst which is difficult to be thrown off by the wicked and the sinful, which faileth not with the failing life, and which is truly the fatal disease of man.
- The conviction that my personal, worldly life was something real and good constituted the misunderstanding, the obstacle, that prevented me from comprehending Jesus doctrine.
- We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksniff, was a man whose aims were really worldly' and practical, while he pretended that they were religious. The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious, while he pretends that they are ' worldly and practical.