Secular
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɛkjʊlə/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Secular is an adjective meaning Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
Meaning
Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
More Meanings
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- Continuing over a long period of time.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
Example Sentences
on a secular basis
Near-synonym: nonmonastic
secular clergy in Catholicism
Near-synonyms: centurial, centennial
Word Forms
- seculars
Synonyms for secular
Depending on context, synonyms include areligious, civil, earthly, irreligious, laicist, mundane.
Antonyms for secular
Common opposites include eternal, everlasting, frequent, unpredictable, non-recurring, clerical.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include laic, profane, lay, layman, layperson, laical.
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