Word Meanings - TERRESTRIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison. 3. Of or

Additional info about word: TERRESTRIAL

1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison. 3. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. Young. 4. Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. Woodward. 5. Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope. -- Ter*res"tri*al*ly, adv. -- Ter*res"tri*al*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TERRESTRIAL)

• Temporal
• Secular
• worldly
• civil
• political
• transient
• fleeting
• laical
• terrestrial
• sublunary
• mundane
• Worldly
• Terrestrial
• temporal
• secular
• earthly
• carnal

Related words: (words related to TERRESTRIAL)

• FLEET
  1. A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes. 2. A former prison in London,
• CARNALIST
  A sensualist. Burton.
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• MUNDANE
  Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor. (more info) toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. mansds
• LAICALITY
  The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• SECULAR
  A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. Burke.
• TEMPORAL
  Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• FLEET-FOOT
  Swift of foot. Shak.
• FLEETINGLY
  In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• FLEETING
  Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
• CARNALLITE
  A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.
• CARNAL-MINDED
  Worldly-minded.
• LAICALLY
  As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.
• SECULARIZATION
  The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
• SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
  Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• ULTRAMUNDANE
  Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• UNSECULARIZE
  To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.