UNSPIRITUAL Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

unspiritual

adjective

Definition of unspiritual

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Recent Examples of unspiritual When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed. — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018

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Adjective

This one opens out to accommodate an improbable amount of worldly possessions— including a large laptop—without looking remotely utilitarian.

— Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026
The lounge is a real scene, especially during afternoon tea, when a perfectly coiffed crowd has hushed discussions about worldly matters.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of worldly

Adjective

Outside stands a statue of an infirm John Paul II leaning on his papal staff — a reminder of the pontiffs who have been treated here, and of their earthly frailty.

— Claudio Lavanga, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
The community advocated a spiritual life and represented their idea of an earthly paradise.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of earthly

Adjective

Much of the rest of the film, adapted from a short story by Ursula Wills-Jones and directed by real-life couple Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, focuses on the couple’s staggering carnal connection.

— Rachel Handler, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Through artifacts spanning 5,000 years, the exhibition constructs an extraordinary history of fashion and the body—material, carnal, vulnerable, seductive, devotional, fragmented—and its transpositions into various expressive languages.

— Judith Clark, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of carnal

Adjective

For well-heeled, globe-trotting diners, Noma offered an escape from modernity and the sensation of communing with something more elemental and earthbound.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
But the production here betrays its economy, and the direction, by Garth Davis and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, remains earthbound, held down by mournful strings and devoid of color.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of earthbound

Adjective

Large swaths of the film are composed of close-ups of people’s faces or hands, giving seemingly mundane exchanges and gestures — say, a moment when Evans, unimpressed with Holmes’s egg-whisking technique, confiscates the bowl — greater weight.

— Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
But even the mundane conversations were remarkable in their unremarkableness.

— Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of mundane

Adjective

Imperfect fleshly reality occupies the stage, the region where bones crack and wounds suppurate, schlumpy humans fall for each other, and jealousy roams murderously free.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
Belief in being a personal soul trapped in a fleshly body would invert this true view.

— Tony Lobl, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2025

Definition of fleshly

Adjective

Blending 1970s sci-fi aesthetics with a timeless world where cell phones are the only markers of temporal difference, the film blurs the boundaries between memory, history and the supernatural.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
The team tested whether the hardware could distinguish temporal patterns using four consecutive input signals that could each be switched on or off.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of temporal

Adjective

We are reminded of dogs as an intermediary between mankind and the rest of creation, both sublunary and celestial; dogs remind us daily of our animal selves and are audience to our higher moments.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 May 2026
Our attention plunges in while the body remains firmly rooted in the sublunary world.

— Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023

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