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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven;
- Example: "earthly beings"
- Example: "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"
- Example: "earthly love"
- Example: "our earthly home"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Earthly \Earth"ly\, adv. In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly. [1913 Webster] Took counsel from his guiding eyes To make this wisdom earthly wise. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Earthly \Earth"ly\, a. 1. Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise. [1913 Webster] This earthly load Of death, called life. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. --Phil. iii. 19. [1913 Webster] 2. Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable. [1913 Webster] What earthly benefit can be the result? --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] --Holland. Syn: Gross; material; sordid; mean; base; vile; low; unsubstantial; temporary; corrupt; groveling. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

earthly adj 1: of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home" [ant: heavenly]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthly": Philistine, base, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, conceivable, corporal, corporeal, earth, earthbound, earthy, feasible, fleshly, fluvioterrestrial, geophilous, human, hylic, imaginable, likely, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, natural, nonspiritual, physical, possible, potential, profane, secular, sensual, somatic, subastral, sublunar, substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unspiritual, worldly