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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tangible, material |
| Synonyms: | concrete, corporeal, environmental, gross, materialistic, natural, objective, palpable, phenomenal, ponderable, real, sensible, solid, somatic, substantial, visible |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, mental, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | actual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | truly existing, real |
| Synonyms: | absolute, authentic, categorical, certain, concrete, confirmed, definite, factual, for real, genuine, hard, honest injun, honest to God, indisputable, indubitable, kosher*, physical, positive, realistic, substantial, substantive, sure enough, tangible, true, truthful, undeniable, unquestionable, verified |
| Antonyms: | counterfeit, false, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, pretended, unreal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beastlike; carnal |
| Synonyms: | beastly, bestial, bodily, brute, brutish, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, mammalian, muscular, natural, physical, sensual, untamed, wild, zoological |
| 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: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strong; animal-like |
| Synonyms: | animal, beastly, bestial, bodily, carnal, feral, ferine, fleshly, instinctive, mindless, physical, senseless, swinish, unthinking |
| Antonyms: | gentle, mild, weak |
| 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: | 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: | examination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medical checkup |
| Synonyms: | autopsy, biopsy, exam, inquiry, observation, physical, postoperative, probe, test |
| 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 |
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