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earthly /ˈəːθli /adjective (earthlier, earthliest)1Relating to the earth or human life: water is liquid at normal earthly temperatures...- Humans and other earthly life forms evolved within the protective shell of the magnetosphere and the atmosphere, shielded from most of the harmful solar and cosmic radiation.
- The question remains: is the concurrent rise of solar activity and of earthly temperatures a coincidence or a cause-and-effect relationship?
- Roughly 4.5 billion years from now, Lyotard reminds us, the sun will explode, destroying the earth and all earthly life.
Synonyms terrestrial, telluric, tellurian rare terrene, subastral 1.1Relating to humankind’s material existence as distinct from a spiritual or heavenly one: all earthly happiness is but vanity...- Lijiang, a poetic place in South China's Yunnan Province, offers a heavenly escape from earthly troubles and anxieties.
- It remains gloriously aloof from man's bitter quarrels, soaring, with a heavenly grace, beyond earthly feuds.
- He was a fierce, conflicted hater who never quite reconciled his earthly and spiritual ambitions.
Synonyms worldly, temporal, secular, mortal, human, mundane, material, non-spiritual, materialistic; carnal, fleshly, bodily, physical, corporal, corporeal, sensual; gross, base, sordid, vile, profane rare somatic, sublunary, terrene 2 [with negative] informal Used for emphasis: there was no earthly reason why she should not come too...- Before last week, the Latino share of the electorate had risen steadily for a decade and a half, and there's no earthly reason to think it won't resume its upward climb in 2004.
- What was most galling was that there was no earthly reason why the Leinster final couldn't comfortably have been brought forward by a week or a fortnight.
- There is no earthly reason for you to call it a day.
Synonyms feasible, possible, likely, conceivable, imaginable, perceivable Phrasesnot stand (or have) an earthly Derivativesearthliness /ˈəːθlɪnəs / noun ...- Jeunet made the capricious Amélie with her in 2001, and ‘capricious’ is the only word for a movie that itself strained to wed the serendipity of surrealism to the earthliness of affinity.
- And it is in this arena that the ‘earthliness’ of the Church often gets caught up with its divine aspect - where the rubber hits the road, so to speak.
- Given that his grandfather is among the top three world coaches, and that his father has a earthliness that is equally impressive, Daniel has started his golfing life with every possible advantage.
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