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as an adjective: - 1
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secular
noun
1 secular
Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person.
synonyms: layman, layperson.
Dutch: leek, oningewijde
Polish: świecki, laik
adjective
1 secular
Of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.
2 secular
Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world.
synonyms: temporal, worldly.
3 secular
Not concerned with or devoted to religion:
— Secular drama.
— Secular architecture.
synonym: profane.
Roget 98:
five,
quinary†,
quintuple;
fifth;
senary†,
sextuple;
sixth;
seventh;
septuple;
octuple;
eighth;
ninefold,
ninth;
tenfold,
decimal,
denary†,
decuple†,
tenth;
eleventh;
duodenary†,
duodenal;
twelfth;
in one's 'teens,
thirteenth.
vicesimal†,
vigesimal;
twentieth;
twenty-fourth
etc.
n.;
vicenary†,
vicennial†.
centuple†,
centuplicate†,
centennial,
centenary,
centurial†;
secular,
hundredth;
thousandth,
etc.
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Roget 138:
periodic,
periodical;
serial,
recurrent,
cyclical,
rhythmical;
recurring
etc.
v.;
intermittent,
remittent;
alternate,
every other.
hourly;
diurnal,
daily;
quotidian,
tertian,
weekly;
hebdomadal†,
hebdomadary†;
biweekly,
fortnightly;
bimonthly;
catamenial†;
monthly,
menstrual;
yearly,
annual;
biennial,
triennial,
&c.;
centennial,
secular;
paschal,
lenten,
etc.
regular,
steady,
punctual,
regular as clockwork.
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Roget 984:
heterodox,
heretical;
unorthodox,
unscriptural,
uncanonical;
antiscriptural†,
apocryphal;
unchristian,
antichristian†;
schismatic,
recusant,
iconoclastic;
sectarian;
dissenting,
dissident;
secular
&c.,
(lay)
997.
pagan;
heathen,
heathenish;
ethnic,
ethnical;
gentile,
paynim†;
pantheistic,
polytheistic.
Judaical,
Mohammedan,
Brahminical†,
Buddhist
etc.
n.;
Romish,
Protestant
etc.
n..
bigoted
etc.
(prejudiced)
481,
(obstinate)
606;
superstitious
etc.
(credulous)
486;
fanatical;
idolatrous
etc.
991;
visionary
etc.
(imaginative)
515.
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Roget 997:
secular,
lay,
laical,
civil,
temporal,
profane.
4 secular
Of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows.
5 secular
Characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy.
synonyms: laic, lay.
Polish: świecki, niereligijny, laicki, bezreligijny
Moby thesaurus: Philistine, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, bodily, brother, carnal, carnal-minded, catamenial, catechumen, centenary, centennial, centesimal, centigrado, centuple, centuplicate, centurial, church member, churchman, churchwoman, civil, communicant, congregational, corporal, corporeal, daily, decennial, diurnal, down-to-earth, earthly, earthy, fleshly, fortnightly, hardheaded, hebdomadal, hourly, hundredfold, hundredth, hylic, laic, laical, lay, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, material, materialistic, materiate, matter-of-fact, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, mundane, nonclerical, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial, nonordained, nonpastoral, nonreligious, nonsacred, nonspiritual, parishioner, physical, popular, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, profane, quarterly, quotidian, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, reprobate, sane, scientific, scientistic, secularist, secularistic, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, sensible, sister, sober-minded, somatic, sound, sound-thinking, state, straight-thinking, substantial, temporal, terrestrial, tertian, triennial, unblessed, unhallowed, unholy, unideal, unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic, unsacred, unsanctified, unsentimental, unspiritual, weekly, worldly, yearly ... show more.
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