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earthly
/ ˈɜːθlɪ /
adjective
- of or characteristic of the earth as opposed to heaven; material or materialistic; worldly
- informal.usually used with a negative conceivable or possible; feasible (in such phrases as not an earthly ( chance ), etc)
Derived Forms
- ˈearthliness, noun
Other Words From
- earthli·ness noun
- super·earthly adjective
Word History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
You are, for example, still subject to earthly gravity, and not in orbit.
He then slumped to the floor, to the amazement of his audience, having departed this plane of earthly existence.
Members of the cult offer body sacrifices and worship the bones of their dead ancestors to ward off earthly evil.
I never was one,” he insisted—“even on the basis of an earthly definition of a saint as a sinner who keeps trying.
But if a genius is a quasi-divine being, a certain exemption from earthly laws of conduct is only natural.
They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.
Life is represented as struggling to free herself from the gross earthly forms that cling to her.
And if an earthly father would act thus wisely and thus kindly, "how much more your Father which is in Heaven?"
The minister's eye kept steady to one point; to raise the country he governed, to the utmost pinnacle of earthly grandeur.
His first hard struggle for deliverance was coincident with his last hour of earthly peace.
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