Definition for Secular:

• Pertaining to an age or generation: coming or observed only once in a century: ( geol.) gradually becoming appreciable in the course of ages: pertaining to the present world, or to things not spiritual: not bound by monastic rules.

Synonyms for Secular:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • secular.
  •amateur (adjective)
  • laic.
  •earthly (adjective)
  • most uncelestial,
  • more sublunary,
  • more subastral,
  • most geotic,
  • more terraqueous,
  • un spiritual,
  • pro-fane,
  • un-spiritual,
  • more uncelestial,
  • more geotic,
  • sub astral,
  • more unspiritual,
  • sub-astral,
  • most unspiritual,
  • Subastral,
  • most alluvial,
  • more nonspiritual,
  • most terraqueous,
  • un celestial,
  • most subastral,
  • most nonspiritual,
  • non spiritual,
  • most sublunary,
  • in creation,
  • global,
  • pro fane,
  • more alluvial,
  • under sun,
  • un-celestial.
  •earthy (adjective)
  • material,
  • earthy,
  • mundane,
  • physical,
  • base,
  • carnal.
  •fleshly (adjective)
  • of this world,
  • fleshly.
  •temporal (adjective)
  • non sacred,
  • more subcelestial,
  • most nonsacred,
  • most subcelestial,
  • sub celestial,
  • more unsanctified,
  • un sanctified,
  • more nonsacred,
  • most unsanctified,
  • sub-celestial.
  •terrestrial (adjective)
  • Subsolar.
  •unhallowed (adjective)
  • unblessed,
  • deconsecrated,
  • unconsecrated,
  • un-hallowed.
  •worldly (adjective)
  • un-godlier,
  • un godly,
  • un-godliest,
  • un-godly,
  • un godlier,
  • un godliest.

• n.

  •
  • heretic.
  •
  • culture,
  • body,
  • earthen,
  • place.
  •
  • sacred.
  •profane (noun)
  • profane.
  •secular (noun)
  • lay.
  •temporal (noun)
  • materialistic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • civil,
  • social,
  • unbelief,
  • secularism,
  • anticlerical,
  • nonobservance,
  • nihilism,
  • rationalist,
  • apostate,
  • corporeal,
  • lapsed,
  • unbeliever,
  • sacrilege,
  • unholy,
  • heterodox,
  • secularize,
  • atheist,
  • unorthodox,
  • sinner,
  • humanism.
  •
  • profanity,
  • flesh.
  •
  • violate.
  •
  • world.

Paraphrases for Secular:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    worldly.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    secularist.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    non-confessional, ancient, vulgar, grassroots, temporal.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    layperson, layman.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    centuries-old, non-religious, non-denominational, secularism, age-old, centuries-long, mundane, popular.
  • Proper noun, singular
    secularism.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    secularism.

Antonyms for Secular:

• adj.

  • all
    religious.
  • not spiritual or religious
    holy, godly, mental, spiritual.
  • Other antonyms:
    pious, metaphysical, insubstantial, incorporeal, immaterial, nonphysical, worshipful, ethereal, bodiless, reverent, prayerful, unsubstantial.

Secular Sentence Examples:

• Nor have I anywhere found any discussion by Chesterton of the intellectual quality of Catholic education - any comparison with the secular teaching - either in England or in America.

• No secular theory of personal continuance, as even Butler acknowledged, does not equally demand the eternity of the brute.

Homophones for Secular:

• slur, slurry, squalor, squealer, scholar, sclera, solar year, sculler, solar array, shoe collar, seller, sheller, scalar, salary, selar, scaler, sailor, school year, solar, sea lawyer, salwar, sealer, schiller, soilure, shalwar, slayer, scullery.