secular

adj.世俗的;adj.非宗教的

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
secular (adjective)
1.
a) of or relating to the worldly or - temporal secular concerns
b) not overtly or specifically religious - secular music
c) not or - ecclesiastical clerical secular courts secular landowners
2.
not bound by vows or rules - monastic , specifically of, relating to, or forming not belonging to a religious order or congregation - clergy a secular priest
3.
a) occurring once in an age or a century
b) existing or continuing through ages or centuries
c) of or relating to a long term of indefinite duration - secular inflation
secular (noun)
1.
an (as a diocesan priest) not bound by vows or rules a member of the secular clergy - ecclesiastic monastic
2.
- layman
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
secular (adjective)
not involving religion or religious matters
SYNONYMS:
nonreligious, secular, temporal
RELATED WORDS:
atheistic, godless, irreligious, pagan, paganish, religionless; laical ( laic), lay, nonclerical; nondenominational, nonsectarian; earthly, mundane, terrene, terrestrial, worldly; material, physical, substantial; bodily, carnal, corporal, fleshly; blasphemous, impious, irreverent, sacrilegious; unconsecrated, unhallowed
NEAR ANTONYMS:
divine, spiritual; consecrated, hallowed, holy, sacrosanct, sanctified; churchly, devout, godly, pious, prayerful, reverent, worshipful; ethereal, insubstantial, metaphysical, unsubstantial; bodiless, immaterial, incorporeal, nonphysical
religious, sacred
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