Temporal Synonyms and Antonyms

tĕmpər-əl, tĕmprəl
Relating to or characteristic of the earth or of human life on earth
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. earthbound
  2. earthen
  3. earthly
  4. earthy
  5. mundane
  6. secular
  7. tellurian
  8. telluric
  9. terrene
  10. terrestrial
  11. worldly
Transitory
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. temporary
  2. ephemeral
  3. fleeting
  4. momentary
  5. transient
  6. passing
  7. transitory
  8. evanescent
  9. fleet
  10. civil
  11. earthly
  12. fugacious
  13. fugitive
  14. laic
  15. lay
  16. material
  17. short-lived
  18. mundane
  19. physical
  20. political
  21. profane
  22. secular
  23. worldly
Antonyms:
  1. lasting
  2. permanent
  3. perpetual
  4. persistent
  5. endless
The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. temporal role

Words Related to Temporal

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.

Temporal Sentence Examples

  • The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal."

  • Things are temporal, the ideas perpetual, God eternal.

  • In France, where the bishop was a temporal baron, his feudal and his spiritual courts were kept by distinct officers (Fournier, p. 2).

  • In this reign and the next, temporal courts were sometimes given jurisdiction over purely spiritual offences.

  • In many instances the conviction of a temporal court is made conclusive on the bishop without further trial.

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