| 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: | temporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | momentary |
Synonyms: |
chronological, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, of time, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory |
Antonyms: |
endless, lasting, permanent, perpetual, persistent |
| 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: | chronological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in consecutive time |
Synonyms: |
chronographic, chronologic, chronometric, chronometrical, chronoscopic, classified, dated, historical, horological, horometrical, in due course, in due time, in order, in sequence, junctural, order archival, ordered, progressive, sequent, sequential, tabulated, temporal |
| 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' |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
heavenly, immaterial, spiritual, unearthly |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
ordained, professional |
| 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: | 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: | profane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion |
Synonyms: |
abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty, temporal, transient, transitory, unconsecrated, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, vulgar, wicked, worldly |
Antonyms: |
clean, moral, sacred |
| Main Entry: | secular |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
godly, holy, religious, spiritual |