Synonyms for world
Another word for world is global, world-wide or worldwide. Below are 25 synonyms and 22 related words across 9 senses.
Also searched as: worlds.
1. adjective: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
- global synonyms
- world-wide synonyms
- worldwide synonyms
- planetary synonyms
- international synonyms
2. noun: everything that exists anywhere
- universe synonyms
- creation synonyms
- existence synonyms
- cosmos synonyms
- macrocosm
3. noun: people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
- domain synonyms
4. noun: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
- reality synonyms
5. noun: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
- earth synonyms
- globe synonyms
6. noun: people in general considered as a whole
- public synonyms
- populace
7. noun: a part of the earth that can be considered separately
8. noun: the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- earth synonyms
- worldly concern
- earthly concern
9. noun: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- man synonyms
- human race synonyms
- humans synonyms
- humanity synonyms
- human beings synonyms
- mankind synonyms
- humankind synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- nature
- natural order
- natural object
- closed universe
- class synonyms
- social class
- socio-economic class
- academia
- stratum
- academe
- real world
- real life
- experience synonyms
- admass
- part synonyms
- piece synonyms
- concern synonyms
- group synonyms
- human synonyms
- human being
- homo synonyms
- grouping
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Questions people ask
What is another word for world?
You can say global, world-wide, worldwide, planetary or international instead of world. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope".
What is the opposite of world?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for world; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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