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secular

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of secular

not involving religion or religious matters

that's an issue for the secular authorities, not the church

Synonyms of secular

nonreligious, profane, temporal

Words Related to secular

atheistic, godless, irreligious, pagan, paganish, religionless

laical (or laic), lay, nonclerical

nondenominational, nonsectarian

earthly, mundane, terrene, terrestrial, worldly

material, physical, substantial

bodily, carnal, corporal, fleshly

blasphemous, impious, irreverent, sacrilegious

unconsecrated, unhallowed

Near Antonyms of secular

divine, spiritual

consecrated, hallowed, holy, sacrosanct, sanctified

churchly, devout, godly, pious, prayerful, reverent, worshipful

ethereal, insubstantial, metaphysical, unsubstantial

bodiless, immaterial, incorporeal, nonphysical

Antonyms of secular

religious, sacred

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