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
  • Then, all the players lined up in a queue of shame to dump all of their worldly belongings into the laundry bin at the facility.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • These poems used images from ordinary life to warn against greed, religious hypocrisy and an excessive attachment to worldly possessions.
    — Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Definition of worldly
Adjective
  • Instead, Farage's main opponent is Count Binface, a political satirist posing as a comic space alien, with a keen interest in earthly matters, including the positioning of a hand dryer in the men's toilet in a pub in west London.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • On a molecular level, earthly life takes this to the extreme.
    — Berly McCoy, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of earthly
Adjective
  • In this case, her yearning for him seems as much carnal as romantic.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 26 July 2026
  • Misty Roberts, 44, was sentenced June 9 after being found guilty in March of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile, both felonies, according to KPLC, The Guardian and Louisiana Radio Network.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Definition of carnal
Adjective
  • 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
  • Big dreams have a tendency to shape-shift when they are transformed into earthbound finite reality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
Definition of earthbound
Adjective
  • All of them are concerned with legacy, particularly among fathers and daughters (Shakespeare had two and lost his only son), and all of them touch a realm beyond the mundane — a place of gods and dreams, oracles and enchantment.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Concepts like a recurring conversation with a sibling, a habit picked up during a mundane after-school job, or a small mistake that took months to fully understand can be inroads to genuine self-reflection and creative expression.
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 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
  • When the dogs saw pictures of happy people, their temporal cortex and caudate nucleus became active.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
  • And those are just the normal lines—not the special-occasion ones that require more serious temporal investment.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 10 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 17 Aug. 2026.

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