Earthly

Word EARTHLY
Character 7
Hyphenation earth ly
Pronunciations /ˈəːθli/

Definitions and meanings of "Earthly"

What do we mean by earthly?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of this earth. adjective

Terrestrial; not heavenly or divine. adjective

Worldly. adjective

Conceivable; possible. adjective

Pertaining to the earth or to this world; pertaining to the mundane state of existence: as, earthly objects; earthly residence.

Belonging to the earth or world; worldly; carnal, as opposed to spiritual or heavenly; vile.

Made of earth; earthy: as, “earthly substance,”

Corporeal; not mental.

Being or originating on earth; of all things in the world; possible; conceivable: used chiefly as an expletive.

Synonyms Terrestrial, mundane, sublunary, etc. See worldly.

Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly adjective

Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable. adjective

Made of earth; earthy. adjective

In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly. adverb

Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven. adjective

Used to put an emphasis adjective

A slightest chance (of success etc.) or idea (about something). noun

In an earthy manner adverb

Of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven adjective

(collective or in the plural) That which is of the earth or earthly; a terrestrial being.

A slightest chance (of success etc.) or idea (about something).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Earthly

The word "earthly" in example sentences

People, the moment you start rationalizing earthly power and authority in * earthly* government has been established by GOD, you challenge and threaten to take away our earthly agency and our sense of the Divine invested in us in the call to "do good, do justice" and change corrupt government. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Jehovah's Witness #1: We don't vote in earthly elections. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All men are miserable in earthly kingdoms, for fate leaves no-one under the heavens unchanged. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2008)

We should not be distracted like those who have placed their heart entirely in earthly goods .... ❋ John (2008)

This is like Governor Mike Huckabee's miracles can defeat math in earthly matters; Huckabee is now an 'also ran'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Along the way he's assisted by a woman who may (or may not) be Lucifer in earthly form. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

There has been ample appeal by the likes of Vincent Gray and Baluinas and Soon to use the lack of complete understanding of the affect of sun spots and gamma radiation to wave away the affect of greenhouse gases on the change in earthly climate over the past several decades. ❋ Unknown (2006)

God is not cheering for anyone to gain earthly power, through human institutions like government. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve as monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Nansen was rich, although not primarily in earthly possessions. ❋ Unknown (1954)

The saint, at any rate Tolstoy’s kind of saint, is not trying to work an improvement in earthly life: he is trying to bring it to an end and put something different in its place. ❋ Unknown (1947)

’ No one puts it quite so coarsely as that, but the thought of all these people is along those lines: even of those who, like Michael Roberts and Hulme himself, admit that a little, just a little, improvement in earthly society may be thinkable. ❋ Unknown (1943)

"I wonder if astronomers feel a very deep interest in earthly affairs?" said the doctor. ❋ Lucy Maud (1921)

They were so lifelike, I thought they were angel visions which the artist had caught and bound in earthly forms. ❋ Annie Sullivan (1905)

Nothing earthly is ever reproduced in the same form. ❋ Unknown (1897)

It is not, as in earthly inheritances, the death of the father, but our Father's sovereign will simply that makes us heirs. child -- Greek, "one under age." differeth nothing, &c. -- that is, has no more freedom than a slave (so the Greek for "servant" means). ❋ Unknown (1871)

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