'Earthly' definitions:
Definition of 'earthly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [ant: heavenly]
Definition of 'Earthly'
From: GCIDE
- Earthly \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. [1913 Webster]
- This earthly load Of death, called life. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. --Phil. iii. 19. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable. [1913 Webster]
- What earthly benefit can be the result? --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] --Holland.
- Syn: Gross; material; sordid; mean; base; vile; low; unsubstantial; temporary; corrupt; groveling. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Earthly'
From: GCIDE
- Earthly \Earth"ly\, adv. In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly. [1913 Webster]
- Took counsel from his guiding eyes To make this wisdom earthly wise. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'earthly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Earthly'
- Earth,
- Earthed,
- Earthing,
- On earth,
- earth up,
- Adamic earth,
- Alkaline earths,
- Bitter earth,
- Black Earth,
- Blue Earth,
- Bog earth,
- Bone earth,
- Brick earth,
- Cassel earth,
- Chian earth,
- Cologne earth,
- Earth apple,
- Earth auger,
- Earth bath,
- Earth battery,
- Earth chestnut,
- Earth closet,
- Earth dog,
- Earth flax,
- Earth hog,
- Earth hunger,
- Earth light,
- Earth metal,
- Earth oil,
- Earth pig,
- Earth pillars,
- Earth pitch,
- Earth pyramid,
- Earth pyramids,
- Earth quadrant,
- Earth shine,
- Earth shrew,
- Earth table,
- Earth, TX,
- Ends of the earth,
- Foster earth,
- Fuller's earth,
- Gall of the earth,
- Green earth,
- Hazel earth,
- Infusorial earth,
- Japan earth,
- Lemnian earth,
- Meat earth,
- Poles of the earth,
- Samian earth,
- Tile earth,
- White Earth,
- Yellow earth,
- alkaline earth,
- bleaching earth,
- diatomaceous earth,
- down-to-earth,
- earth almond,
- earth borer,
- earth color,
- earth colors,
- earth god,
- earth goddess,
- earth mother,
- earth science,
- earth tones,
- earth tremor,
- earth wax,
- earth's crust,
- earth's surface,
- earthly concern,
- hell on earth,
- potter's earth,
- rare earth,
- salt of the earth,
- scum of the earth,
- Black Earth, WI,
- Blue Earth County,
- Blue Earth, MN,
- Diurnal motion of the earth,
- Earth-tongue,
- Earthly-minded,
- Earthly-mindedness,
- Man-of-the earth,
- Middle-earth,
- Star-of-the-earth,
- To go the way of all the earth,
- White Earth, MN,
- White Earth, ND,
- earth-ball,
- earth-born,
- earth-closet,
- earth-colored,
- earth-god,
- earth-goddess,
- earth-shaking,
- gall-of-the-earth,
- man-of-the-earth,
- organization of the oppressed on earth,
- Blue Earth County, MN,
- alkaline-earth metal,
- earth-colored earthlike,
- earth-nut pea,
- earth-received time,
- rare-earth element,
- scorched-earth policy