earthly
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Synonyms & Antonyms for earthly
Synonyms
carnal, earthborn, earthbound, fleshly, material, mundane, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly
Antonyms
heavenly, nontemporal, unearthly, unworldly
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To lose Toni Morrison is to lose a great earthly guide. — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, "Toni Morrison, 1931-2019," 14 Aug. 2019 That intervention was not without earthly problems as residents grappled with how to protect the land, the people and the visitor experience. — Heidi Chang, Los Angeles Times, "A big storm hit Kauai, spawning another issue: Are tourists wrecking the island?," 10 Aug. 2019 In Bangalore, the governmental department that oversees groundwater extraction has just six employees, and thus no earthly way to monitor and enforce the law in this sprawling city. — National Geographic, "India’s water crisis could be helped by better building, planning," 15 July 2019 In what seems at first like a digression, Williamson pivots to an examination of evolving conceptions of the afterlife and evolving ideas about what earthly conduct should properly condemn a soul to eternal torment. — Noah Rothman, National Review, "Kevin Williamson’s Revolt against the Hivemind," 25 July 2019 The group, not so much curators of our civilization as sorters of our life and times, wanted its message from Earth to include culture — art and music, for example — plus renderings of natural and man-made sounds from our earthly home. — David Shribman, Los Angeles Times, "Review: The Voyager spacecraft holds a golden record for aliens. ‘Vinyl Frontier’ tells why," 18 July 2019 In the 1960s, plenty of people grumbled about the cost of leaving Earth, but many more found inspiration in the race to shed humanity’s earthly shackles. — Adam Rogers, WIRED, "Why 'Moon Shot' Has No Place in the 21st Century," 16 July 2019 The idea was for a coup-de-publicité where Epstein would confess his sins and receive forgiveness from the highest earthly authority. — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, "The Secret Plan to Rehabilitate Jeffrey Epstein's Image," 16 July 2019 Most salespeople are not mechanics; most of them will have no earthly idea whether the car has a timing belt or a timing chain. — courant.com, "Car Talk: New Toyota Camry can do everything except play CDs," 17 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'earthly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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