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

1. adjective. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. 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.
4. adjective. 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.
5. adjective. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
6. noun. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
7. noun. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
8. noun. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
9. noun. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

   Synonyms: layman, layperson

10. adjective. of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows

    "the secular clergy"

11. adjective. not concerned with or devoted to religion, "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"

    "sacred and profane music"

    "secular drama"

    Synonyms: profane

12. adjective. characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy

    "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"

    "the lay ministry"

    Synonyms: laic, lay

13. adjective. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

    "worldly goods and advancement"

    "temporal possessions of the church"

    Synonyms: temporal, worldly

14. adjective. of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

Synonyms

layman, layperson, profane, laic, lay, temporal, worldly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in secular:

cesural, recusal

Common word forms

seculars, secularly, secularise, secularity, secularize, secularness

Words from these letters

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