Dictionary Entry
secular
secular is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Coming or observed once in an age or a century. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
- 2adjective
Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
- 3adjective
Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
- 4adjective
Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
- 5adjective
Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
- 6noun
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
- 7noun
A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
- 8noun
A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
- 9noun
someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
- 10adjective
of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
"the secular clergy"
- 11adjective
not concerned with or devoted to religion, "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
"sacred and profane music"
"secular drama"
Synonyms
- 12adjective
characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
"set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"
"the lay ministry"
- 13adjective
characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
"worldly goods and advancement"
"temporal possessions of the church"
- 14adjective
of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
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