| 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: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceivable |
Synonyms: |
feasible, imaginable, likely, mortal, possible, potential, practical, probable |
Antonyms: |
inconceivable |
| 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: | 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: | conceivable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reasonable, easy to understand |
Synonyms: |
believable, convincing, credible, earthly, imaginable, likely, mortal, possible, probable, supposable, thinkable |
Antonyms: |
difficult, inconceivable, unbelievable, unimaginable, unreasonable, unthinkable |
| 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: | global |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldwide, all-encompassing |
Synonyms: |
all-around, all-inclusive, all-out, blanket, catholic, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, earthly, ecumenical, encyclopedic, exhaustive, general, grand, international, mundane, overall, pandemic, planetary, spherical, sweeping, thorough, total, unbounded, universal, unlimited, world |
Antonyms: |
individual, limited, local |
| Main Entry: | material |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily, tangible |
Synonyms: |
actual, animal, appreciable, carnal, concrete, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, incarnate, nonspiritual, objective, palpable, perceptible, phenomenal, physical, real, sensible, sensual, substantial, true, worldly |
| Notes: | germane and relevant indicate pertinence to a matter, but may not be essential; material means pertinent and necessary material is based on Latin materialis 'formed of matter'; materiel means 'personnel' or 'military arms or equipment' |
Antonyms: |
ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, mental |
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | human |
Synonyms: |
animate, bipedal, corporeal, creatural, earthly, ecce homo, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, finite, frail, fugacious, impermanent, momentary, passing, perishable, precarious, sublunary, temporal, transient, weak, worldly |
Antonyms: |
animal, immortal, inhuman, plant |
| Main Entry: | mundane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
Synonyms: |
banal, commonplace, day-to-day, earthly, everyday, humdrum*, lowly, normal, prosaic, routine, workaday, workday, worldly |
Antonyms: |
exciting, extraordinary, heavenly, supernatural, wonderful |