Secular

Adjective

 * 1) Not specifically religious.
 * 2) Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
 * 3)  Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
 * secular clergy in Catholicism
 * 1) Happening once in an age or century.
 * The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
 * 1) Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
 * The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
 * ''on a secular basis
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
 * 2)  Unperturbed over time.
 * 3) * 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
 * The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies να and νβ are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

Synonyms

 * worldly (1)

Antonyms

 * nonsecular
 * religious (1)
 * sacred (1) (used especially of music)
 * monastic (2)
 * regular (2) (as regular clergy in Catholicism)
 * eternal (3)
 * everlasting (3)
 * frequent (4)
 * unpredictable (4)
 * non-recurring (4)
 * short-term (5) (finance)
 * cyclical (5) (finance)

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

Etymology
saecularis, of the age, from saeculum

Translations

 * Arabic: دنياوي, علماني
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 世俗,,  塵俗,  尘俗,  非宗教
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,  mondain
 * German: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 世俗, 世俗,  非宗教的
 * Polish: świecki
 * Portuguese: secular
 * Russian:, мирской,  секулярный
 * Spanish: seglar,,  ,
 * Swedish: sekulär


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: maallikko


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: pysyvä, pitkäaikainen


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * : seculier
 * : profane
 * : secolare
 * : മതേതരം (mathEtharam) (2)
 * : seglar (1,2), secular (1,2,3)

Anagrams

 * recusal

Adjective
secular


 * 1) secular