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| Matching Terms: | | earthlight, earthlike, earthliness, earthling, earthly concern, earthly-minded
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| | Definition: | | [adj] of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home" |
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| | Synonyms: | | earthborn, earthbound, earthlike, mundane, sublunar, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial |
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| | Antonyms: | | heavenly |
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| | See Also: | | mortal, profane, worldly |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Earth"ly\, a.
1. Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to
man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual;
carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers;
earthly praise.
This earthly load Of death, called life. --Milton.
Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly
things. --Phil. iii.
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2. Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
What earthly benefit can be the result? --Pope.
3. Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] --Holland.
Syn: Gross; material; sordid; mean; base; vile; low;
unsubstantial; temporary; corrupt; groveling.
\Earth"ly\, adv.
In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
Took counsel from his guiding eyes To make this wisdom
earthly wise. --Emerson.
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| | Related Terms: | | base, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, conceivable, corporal, corporeal, earth, earthbound, earthy, feasible, fleshly, fluvioterrestrial, geophilous, human, hylic, imaginable, likely, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, natural, nonspiritual, Philistine, physical, possible, potential, profane, secular, sensual, somatic, subastral, sublunar, substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unspiritual, worldly |
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