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earthly -adj Etymology: Middle English erthely, erthly, from Old English eorthlic, from eorth- (from eorthe earth) 1. a) : characteristic of or belonging to this earth -- often distinguished from heavenly no ~ sovereign can do what he pleases -- M.R.Cohen there could be a new order based on vital harmony and the ~ millenium might approach -- E.M.Forster b) : relating to mans actual life on this earth : realistic, factual, worldly : not ideal, spiritual, or utopian 2. archaic : earthen 3. : existing, living, or occurring on or in the ground airplane travel would have remained a merely minor quantitative improvement over ~ locomotion -- Maya Deren 4. : conceivable according to actualities and facts :possible there is no ~ doubt that men degenerate -- J.B.Cabell not an ~ chance to win synonym terrestrial, terrene, earthy, mundane, worldly, sublunary: earthly is generally an opposite for heavenly or spiritual the high gods, who dwell remote from the fret and fever of this earthly life -- J.G.Frazer we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign forever -- Bram Stoker terrestrial sometimes a sonorous or scientific close synonym for earthly is often an opposite for celestial. may be used to designate land in contrast to water or air or to indicate planets nearer the sun in contrast to those more distant it was probably not the first time that struggles for terrestrial power were carried on in terms of celestial ideology; it certainly has not been the last -- L.A.White strictly terrestrial, being from the nature of its claws unable to climb trees -- James Stevenson-Hamilton terrene is an uncommon synonym for earthly and for terrestrial in general nonscientific applications and so the empyrean element, lying smothered under the terrene, and yet inextinguishable there, made sad writings -- Thomas Carlyle all that was mixed an