earthborn

earthborn

adjective

Definition of EARTHBORN

1

having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven <turned away from earthborn concerns during the High Holidays>

Synonyms carnal, earthborn, earthbound, fleshly, material, mundane, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly

Related Words animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, physical; daily, diurnal; unspiritual; anthropic (or anthropical), anthropocentric

Near Antonyms celestial, Elysian, empyreal, empyrean, supernal; metaphysical; devotional, divine, religious, sacred, spiritual, utopian; extraterrestrial; ethereal, supernatural, transcendent, transcendental

Antonyms heavenly, nontemporal, unearthly, unworldly

2

relating to or characteristic of human beings <he claims to be above such earthborn concerns as material comfort>

Synonyms earthborn, mortal, natural

Related Words anthropoid, creatural, hominid, humanlike, humanoid

Near Antonyms angelic (or angelical), divine, godlike, preternatural, superhuman, supernatural, supernormal; immortal, omnipotent, omniscient; animal, beastly, bestial, brute, infrahuman; inhuman, robotic, subhuman

Antonyms nonhuman