worldly goods

Questions about worldly goods

What is another word for worldly goods?

It depends which worldly goods you mean. In the sense “all the property that someone possesses”, the synonyms are worldly possessions, worldly belongings. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of worldly goods?

WordNet records no antonym for worldly goods. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for worldly goods come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of worldly goods

• Full entry for worldly goodsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for worldly goodsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.