Sublunary

Quick meaning: Sublunary is an adjective meaning In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.

Meaning

In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.

More Meanings

1. Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.
2. (figurative) Inferior, subordinate.
3. A person or thing which is of the (material) world.
4. A less important person; an inferior, a subordinate.
5. (chiefly historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.

Example Sentences

All Sublunary Things are contemptible, and of no Value.

Ye Sublunary VVorlds avvake, avvake, / Ye Rulers of the Nations hear and ſhake?

Dull ſublunary lovers love / (VVhoſe ſoule is ſenſe) cannot admit / Abſence, becauſe it doth remove / Thoſe things vvhich elemented it.

OVID had vvarn'd her to bevvare, / Of Stroling God's, vvhoſe uſual Trade is, / Under pretence of Taking Air, / To Pick up Sublunary Ladies.

Word Forms

• sublunaries

Synonyms for sublunary

Depending on context, synonyms include sublunar, cislunar, earthly, terrestrial.

Antonyms for sublunary

Common opposites include superlunar, translunar, translunary, celestial, ethereal, heavenly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cislunar, earthly, sublunar, terrestrial, cis-lunar, sublunarian.

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