What is another word for sublunary?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌbluːnəɹi] (IPA)

Sublunary is an adjective that describes something belonging to or occurring in the earthly world rather than in a spiritual realm. Synonyms for sublunary include earthly, mundane, temporal, worldly, material, and secular. These adjectives describe things that are of this world and are not considered to have any supernatural or otherworldly qualities. Using these words can help to add depth and variety to your vocabulary and writing, allowing you to express your ideas more precisely and to paint a more nuanced picture of the world around us. Whether you are discussing philosophical or practical matters, these synonyms can help you to communicate your ideas more effectively.

What are the hypernyms for Sublunary?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for sublunary?

Sublunary refers to things that are worldly, mundane, or pertaining to the material world. Some antonyms for this word include: heavenly, divine, ethereal, spiritual, and transcendental. These terms suggest a realm beyond the physical and material, where things are elevated and spiritual in nature. Other antonyms may include: sacred, holy, celestial, and supernatural. These words describe elements that are more than just physical or material, but rather are influenced by or exist beyond the physical world. By considering these antonyms, we can see the full spectrum of ideas and concepts that are related to sublunary, and better understand its meaning in a broader context.

Usage examples for Sublunary

His mind was far too loftily poised to notice such sublunary matters as white curtains and druggets not in tatters; but when he seated himself at his desk, and stretched out his hand mechanically to find his battered old edition of Plato, it was not in its accustomed place.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
Going to the Sherman House, I caught the last elevator for my room on the top floor, and it was not long ere I was oblivious to all sublunary things.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
It was by slow degrees, and only after direct measurements of parallax had shown some of them to be more distant than the moon, that the tide of old opinion was turned and comets were transferred from the sublunary to the celestial sphere, and in more recent times meteors also have been recognized as coming to us from outside the earth.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock

Famous quotes with Sublunary

  • God, say some philosophers, manifests himself in the sublunary world in particular beauties, truths and acts of benevolence; properly, the values should be conjoined to shadow their identity in the godhead, but this happens so infrequently that one must suppose divinity condones a kind of diabolic fracture or else, and perhaps my book is already giving some hint of this, he demonstrates his ineffable freedom through contriving at times a wanton inconsistency. If this is so, we need not wonder at Messalina’s failure to match her beauty with a love of truth and goodness. She was a chronic liar and she was thoroughly bad. But her beauty, we are told, was a miracle. The symmetry of her body obeyed all the golden rules of the mystical architects, her skin was without even the most minuscule flaw and it glowed as though gold had been inlaid behind translucent ivory, her breasts were full and yet pertly disdained earth’s pull, the nipples nearly always erect, and visibly so beneath her byssinos, as in a state of perpetual sexual excitation, the areolas delicately pigmented to a kind of russet. The sight of her weaving bare white arms was enough, it is said, to make a man grit his teeth with desire to be encircled by them; the smooth plain of her back, tapering to slenderness only to expand lusciously to the opulence of her perfect buttocks, demanded unending caresses.
    Anthony Burgess
  • Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
    John Donne

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