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Main Entry:
secular [sek-yuh-ler]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not spiritual or religious
Synonyms: civil, earthly, laic, laical, lay, material, materialistic, nonclerical, nonreligious, of this world, profane, temporal, unsacred, worldly
Notes: sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature
Antonyms: godly, holy, religious, spiritual
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: lay
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amateur, not trained in a religious or other profession
Synonyms: inexpert, nonclerical, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, ordinary, secular, temporal, unsacred
Notes: to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline
Antonyms: ordained, professional
Main Entry: layperson
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amateur person, not trained in religious or other profession
Synonyms: believer, dilettante, follower, laic, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, parishioner, proselyte, recruit, secular
Antonyms: minister, ordained, priest, professional, reverend
Main Entry: materialistic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: thinking mainly about physical things
Synonyms: acquisitive, banausic, carnal, earthly-minded, earthy, greedy, material, mundane, object-oriented, possessive, profane, secular, sensual, temporal, terrestrial, unspiritual
Antonyms: spiritual, thrifty, ungreedy
Main Entry: temporal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: material, worldly
Synonyms: banausic, carnal, civil, earthly, earthy, fleshly, lay, materialistic, mortal, mundane, nonsacred, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, sensual, subcelestial, sublunary, terrestrial, unhallowed, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual
Notes: the word temporal derives from Latin and chronological is from Greek; temporal is 'having to do with time as opposed to eternity, having to do with earthly life as opposed to heavenly existence, having to do with time as opposed to space' - while chronological is 'arranged according to temporal order'
Antonyms: mental, otherworldly, spiritual
Main Entry: terrestrial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: earthly
Synonyms: earthbound, earthlike, earthy, global, mundane, physical, profane, prosaic, secular, sublunary, subsolar, telluric, temporal, terrene, uncelestial, unspiritual, worldly
Antonyms: cosmic, heavenly, otherworldly
Main Entry: worldly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: material, nonreligious
Synonyms: carnal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, human, lay, materialistic, mundane, natural, physical, practical, profane, secular, sublunary, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, ungodly
Antonyms: immaterial, otherworldly, religious
Main Entry: layman
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amateur
Synonyms: believer, dilettante, follower, laic, lay person, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, parishioner, proselyte, recruit, secular
Antonyms: professional
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