secular
Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
Other meanings
Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
Antonyms
- eternal
- frequent
- unpredictable
- non-recurring
Related words
- antisecular
- intersecular
- intrasecular
- palaeosecular
- postsecular
- presecular
- pseudosecular
- secularisation
- secularity
- secularization
- secularness
- sickular
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "saeculāris" (of the age).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “secular” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.