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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | blasé |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonchalant |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, been around twice, bored, cloyed, cool*, disenchanted, disentranced, done it all, fed up*, glutted, indifferent, jaded, knowing, laid-back*, lukewarm, mellow*, mundane, offhand, satiated, sick of, sophisticate, sophisticated, surfeited, unconcerned, unexcited, uninterested, unmoved, weary, world-weary, worldly |
| Antonyms: | enthusiastic, excited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | cosmopolitan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldly-wise |
| Synonyms: | catholic, cultivated, cultured, ecumenical, global, gregarious, metropolitan, planetary, polished, public, smooth, sophisticated, universal, urbane, well-travelled, worldly, worldwide |
| Antonyms: | country, rural, rustic |
| Main Entry: | disenchanted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | let down |
| Synonyms: | blasé, cynical, disappointed, disenthralled, disentranced, disillusioned, embittered, indifferent, jaundiced, knowing, mondaine, out of love, sick of, sophisticate, sophisticated, soured, undeceived, worldly, worldly-wise |
| Antonyms: | enchanted, encouraged |
| Main Entry: | disillusioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disappointed |
| Synonyms: | blasé, broken, brought down to earth, debunked, disabused, disenchanted, disenthralled, disentranced, embittered, enlightened, freed, indifferent, knowing, let-down, mondaine, out of love, punctured, sadder and wiser, shattered, sophisticated, undeceived, worldly, worldly-wise |
| Antonyms: | enchanted, encouraged, enthusiastic |
| 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: | experienced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knowledgeable, knowing |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, accustomed, adept, been around, been there, broken in, capable, competent, cultivated, dynamite, expert, familiar, having something on the ball, in the know, instructed, knowing one's stuff, knowing the score, mature, matured, old, old hand, practical, practiced, pro, professional, qualified, rounded, seasoned, skillful, sophisticated, sport, tested, the right stuff, trained, tried, versed, vet, veteran, well-versed, wise, worldly, worldly-wise |
| Antonyms: | green, ignorant, immature, inexperienced, unfamiliar, unknowledgeable, unseasoned, unsophisticated |
| 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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