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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily, physical |
| Synonyms: | anatomical, carnal, corporal, fleshly, fleshy, human, material, mortal, objective, phenomenal, sensible, somatic, substantial, tangible |
| Antonyms: | cerebral, immaterial, intangible, mental, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | bodily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning animate structure |
| Synonyms: | actual, animal, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, gross, human, material, natural, normal, organic, physical, sensual, somatic, substantial, tangible, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, soulful, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | carnal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erotic, sensual |
| Synonyms: | animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, genital, impure, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful, physical, prurient, salacious, sensuous, temporal, unchaste, venereal, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, worldly |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, intellectual, pure, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | concrete |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | actual, factual |
| Synonyms: | accurate, corporeal, definite, detailed, explicit, material, objective, particular, precise, real, sensible, solid, specific, substantial, tangible |
| Notes: | cement comes from Latin caementum 'chips of stone'; cement is an ingredient of concrete, but is not a synonym; cement should be pronounced suh-MENT |
| Antonyms: | abstract, ideal, immaterial, intangible |
| Main Entry: | corporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily, physical |
| Synonyms: | anatomical, carnal, corporeal, fleshly, fleshy, gross, human, material, objective, phenomenal, sensible, somatic, substantial, tangible |
| Antonyms: | cerebral, immaterial, intangible, mental, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically concerning land or its inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Notes: | earthy is 'similar to earth; hearty' or 'coarse, vulgar' while earthly is 'pertaining to human existence on earth'; earthen means 'made of earth or clay' |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, immaterial, spiritual, unearthly |
| Main Entry: | fleshly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily |
| Synonyms: | corporal, corporeal, earthly, human, material, mundane, of this world, physical, secular, somatic, terrestrial, worldly |
| Antonyms: | mentally, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | gross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | barnyard, boorish, breezy, callous, carnal, cheap, coarse, corporeal, crass, dull, fleshly, foul, ignorant, improper, impure, in the gutter, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensitive, lewd, loudmouthed, low, low-minded, lustful, obscene, offensive, rank, raunchy, raw, ribald, rough, rude, scatological, sensual, sexual, sleazy*, smutty, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncouth, uncultured, undiscriminating, unfeeling, unrefined, unseemly, unsophisticated, voluptuous |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | material |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily, tangible |
| Synonyms: | actual, animal, appreciable, carnal, concrete, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, incarnate, nonspiritual, objective, palpable, perceptible, phenomenal, physical, real, sensible, sensual, substantial, true, worldly |
| Notes: | germane and relevant indicate pertinence to a matter, but may not be essential; material means pertinent and necessary material is based on Latin materialis 'formed of matter'; materiel means 'personnel' or 'military arms or equipment' |
| Antonyms: | ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, mental |
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