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unspiritual

adjective

Definition of unspiritualnext
as in worldly

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspiritual
  1. worldly
  2. earthly
  3. carnal
  4. earthbound
  5. mundane
  6. fleshly
  7. temporal
  8. sublunary
Adjective
  • The pair have just been evicted from their apartment, coming home from church to find all of their worldly possessions on the stairs.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
  • For another geological lure, Kolymbithres Beach in Paros features giant white granite rocks sculpted by the sea into other-worldly formations.
    — Jennifer Tzeses, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of worldly
Adjective
  • In the chamber’s center, a drop of water on a chip contains the chemistry of whatever earthly era or exoplanetary site the group is trying to re-create.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • More importantly, the Zellner brothers platform earthly elements, like music and food, as our most essential joie de vivre.
    — Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of earthly
Adjective
  • Author-director Wayne Wang is back to carnal game playing as a catalyst for psychological mischief in Diary of a Mad Old Man, which stars Fan Bingbing and Lily Franky and is headed to a gala world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In this case, her yearning for him seems as much carnal as romantic.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 26 July 2026
Definition of carnal
Adjective
  • Los Angeles and airborne reporting were always a match made, if not in heaven, then a quarter-mile or so closer to it than the rest of us earthbound beings.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Wall Street banks have high hopes for SpaceX but at the moment shares of Elon Musk's rocket market appear to be earthbound.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2026
Definition of earthbound
Adjective
  • Its technological perversions, unfortunately, end up quite mundane.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Red neon tubes illuminated art works ranging from the disturbing (a black-and-white photograph of a person stuffing sausages in their mouth) to the mundane (a pastoral painting of a snowshoe-wearing rifleman).
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 11 Sep. 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
  • Curiously, cobalt was linked with a small rise in amyloid-beta proteins in the inferior temporal cortex.
    — Mike McRae August 31, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The happy faces lit up their temporal cortex and caudate nucleus, which are parts of the brain associated with higher cognitive and reward processing.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 28 Aug. 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
Definition of sublunary

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“Unspiritual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspiritual. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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