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Lacking spirituality or idealism
mundane, earthly, ungodly, matter-of-fact, practical, secular, profane, strategic, grubbing, money-making, unprincipled, power-loving, self-centered, opportunistic, sophisticated.
Antonyms spiritual*, religious, idealistic.
Referring to life on the earth
terrestrial, earthly, sublunary, mundane, telluric, human, natural, temporal. See syn. study at earthly.earthly.

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Relating to or characteristic of the earth or of human life on earth:
earthbound, earthen, earthly, earthy, mundane, secular, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial. See body, culture, place
Not religious in subject matter, form, or use:
lay², profane, secular, temporal. See sacred
Experienced in the ways of the world; lacking natural simplicity:
cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly-wise. See knowledge

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