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| Main Entry: |
earthly
 [urth-lee] 
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| 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: | telluric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Main Entry: | terrene |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
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Example Sentences
- Stupendous wealth was sucked into an alluvial delta containing a population of fewer than two million.
- Horses, cows and countless birds grazed on the wide alluvial fill separating shore from lake.
- Let there be iron oxides and copper and magnesium and mica to form alluvial fans and washes and canyons and mud hills.
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