Secular Synonyms and Antonyms

sĕkyə-lər
Relating to or characteristic of the earth or of human life on earth
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. worldly
  2. temporal
  3. earthbound
  4. earthen
  5. earthly
  6. earthy
  7. mundane
  8. tellurian
  9. profane
  10. telluric
  11. terrene
  12. terrestrial
Antonyms:
  1. spiritual
  2. religious
  3. holy
  4. godly
Not religious in subject matter, form, or use
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. temporal
  2. profane
  3. lay
  4. worldly
  5. laic
  6. earthly
  7. civil
  8. laical
  9. layperson
  10. material
  11. mundane
  12. nonclerical
  13. nonspiritual
Antonyms:
  1. sacred
  2. religious
Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. secularity
  2. layman
  3. layperson
Antonyms:
  1. clergyman
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. secularize
  2. temporalize

Words Related to Secular

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Secular Sentence Examples

  • Burning was an English punishment for some secular offences.

  • There seems to have been no machinery for assisting the original or appellate jurisdiction of the pope by secular process, - by significavit or otherwise.

  • Primary education is free and secular, and is compulsory for children of 6 to 14 years.

  • Most kinds of offerings are now recoverable in secular courts.

  • The Babylonian calendars contain explicit directions for the observance of abstention from certain secular acts on certain days which forms a close parallel to the Jewish Sabbatical rules.

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