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uncelestial
adjective as in earthly
adjective as in tellurian
adjective as in telluric
adjective as in terrene
Example Sentences
From the elevation about the farm-house we overlook most of the domain of these social reformers,—the many acres of woodlands, the orchards and fields where Ripley, George William Curtis, Hawthorne, Dwight, Bedford, Pratt, Dana, and other transcendental enthusiasts held sublimated discourse while they performed the coarsest farm drudgery, applied uncelestial fertilizers, "belabored rugged furrows," or delved for the infinite in a peat-bog.
What enabled him to see it so clearly was his familiarity with the ways of men and the uncelestial politics of Florence.
But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days.
There is Philip who demoralized the kindergarten class; Edgar, the Choir Boy Uncelestial; Ardelia who didn't like Arcady, and the little beau who dreamed that he went to dancing-school and that he "was the only fellow there and all the little girls were Cecilia."
Man’s angry heart, inspected, would be found As rightly set, as are the starry spheres; ’Tis Nature’s structure, broke by stubborn will, Breeds all that uncelestial discord there.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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