earthly

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. terrestrial; material, worldly, sensual, temporal, mundane, secular; informal, possible, conceivable. See irreligion, land, possibility. Ant., spiritual, celestial.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Terrestrial]

Syn. human, mortal, sublunary, terrene, terraqueous, tellurian, subastral, telluric, global, alluvial, mundane, worldly, natural, under the sun, in all creation.

Ant. unearthly, superhuman, unnatural.

2. [Temporal]

Syn. worldly, mundane, unspiritual, secular, material, physical; see also worldly 1 .

3. [Imaginable]

Syn. conceivable, possible, feasible; see imaginable , practical .

Syn.- earthly is applied to that which belongs to the earth or to the present life and is chiefly contrasted with heavenly [earthly pleasures ] ; terrestrial , having as its opposite celestial (both Latin-derived parallels of the preceding terms), has special application in formal and scientific usage [terrestrial magnetism ] ; worldly implies reference to the material concerns or pursuits of humankind and is chiefly contrasted with spiritual [worldly wisdom ] ; mundane , although often used as a close synonym of worldly , now esp. stresses the commonplace or practical aspects of life [ to return to mundane matters after a flight of fancy ]

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

terrestrial, terrene, worldly, *down to earth, physical, mundane, global, physical, corporeal, mortal, temporal.

ANT.: spiritual, ethereal, otherworldly, divine, heavenly

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Relating to or characteristic of the earth or of human life on earth: earthbound, earthen, earthy, mundane, secular, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly. See BODY, CULTURE, PLACE. 2. Capable of being anticipated, considered, or imagined: conceivable, imaginable, likely, mortal, possible, thinkable. Idioms: humanly possible, within the bounds (or range or realm) of possibility. See POSSIBLE.