Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven;
- Example: "earthly beings"- Example: "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"- Example: "earthly love"- Example: "our earthly home"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Earthly \Earth"ly\, adv.
In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
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Took counsel from his guiding eyes
To make this wisdom earthly wise. --Emerson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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This earthly load
Of death, called life. --Milton.
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Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly
things. --Phil. iii.
19.
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2. Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
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What earthly benefit can be the result? --Pope.
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3. Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] --Holland.
Syn: Gross; material; sordid; mean; base; vile; low;
unsubstantial; temporary; corrupt; groveling.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
earthly
adj 1: 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthly":
Philistine, 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, physical, possible, potential, profane, secular,
sensual, somatic, subastral, sublunar, substantial, tellurian,
telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unspiritual,
worldly