Antonyms for earthly
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : urth-lee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɜrθ li |
Definition of earthly
Origin :- Old English eorþlic "earthly, worldly;" see earth + -ly (1).
- adj physically concerning land or its inhabitants
- adj conceivable
- When they do not disturb him with earthly medicines, he is quiet and happy.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Must all novels end with an earthly marriage, and nothing be left for heaven?
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- What sun of earthly joy could ever break through such clouds!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- If he was not to be her earthly refuge in this trouble as in any other, she would none of him!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- There's no people in the earthly world talks as fine as the Ulster people.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- It is marvel if in these earthly banquets there be not some lack.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
- This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
- It is but a foolish hope; all earthly love is buried; and my heart is there!
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- This angered Venus, and she resolved to cast down her earthly rival.
- Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
- The nervous system is the fundamental fact of our earthly life.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
Synonyms for earthly
- alluvial
- carnal
- corporeal
- feasible
- geotic
- global
- human
- imaginable
- in all creation
- likely
- material
- mortal
- mundane
- nonspiritual
- physical
- possible
- potential
- practical
- probable
- profane
- secular
- subastral
- sublunary
- tellurian
- telluric
- temporal
- terraqueous
- terrene
- terrestrial
- uncelestial
- under the sun
- unspiritual
- worldly
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