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Another word for earthly

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Adjective

  1. Relating to or characteristic of the earth or of human life on earth

    See also:

    place

    culture

    body

  2. Capable of being anticipated, considered, or imagined

    Idioms:
    See also:

    possible

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Another word for earthly

Modifier

  1. Terrestrial

    Antonyms:

  2. Temporal

    See also:

    worldly

  3. Imaginable

    See also:

    practical

    imaginable

Synonym Study

  • Mundane , although often used as a close synonym of worldly , now esp. stresses the commonplace or practical aspects of life to return to mundane matters after a flight of fancy
  • Worldly implies reference to the material concerns or pursuits of humankind and is chiefly contrasted with spiritual worldly wisdom
  • Terrestrial , having as its opposite celestial (both Latin-derived parallels of the preceding terms), has special application in formal and scientific usage terrestrial magnetism
  • Earthly is applied to that which belongs to the earth or to the present life and is chiefly contrasted with heavenly earthly pleasures
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Sentence Examples

  • life superadded to their earthly experience.

  • (1058-1060 declared that Jesus had conferred on Peter the control (jura) of an earthly as well as of a heavenly empire; and this phrase was embodied in the canon law.

  • In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing was for earthly love.

  • These were hard-headed men of affairs - men who would not lightly embark on joyous ventures, or seek for an ideal San Grail; nor were the popes, doomed to the Babylonian captivity for seventy long years at Avignon, able to call down the spark from on high which should consume all earthly ambitions in one great act of sacrifice.

  • It is indeed plain that such a sacrifice - for we have here to do, not with human victims in general, but with the sacrifice of the dearest earthly thing - could only be paid to the supreme deity; and Manasseh and his people never ceased to acknowledge Yahweh as the God of Israel..

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