worldly good

1. 1.

   a commodity or good associated with the earthly, rather than the spiritual, existence of human beings

   Synonymsworldly possession

   Broadercommodity

Questions about worldly good

What does worldly good mean?

worldly good means "a commodity or good associated with the earthly, rather than the spiritual, existence of human beings".

What is another word for worldly good?

Close synonyms include worldly possession. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is worldly good a common word?

worldly good is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.