temporal
temporal is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
- noun. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
- noun. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
- noun. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- noun. the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
- adjective. of this earth or world
"temporal joys"
"our temporal existence"
- adjective. not eternal- F.D.Roosevelt
"temporal matters of but fleeting moment"
- adjective. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
"worldly goods and advancement"
"temporal possessions of the church"
- adjective. of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
"temporal bone"
- adjective. of or relating to or limited by time
"temporal processing"
"temporal dimensions"
Synonyms
Common word forms
temporals, temporally, temporality, temporalize, temporalness
Words from these letters
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