Synonyms for secular
ˈsɛk yə lərsec·u·lar

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1. secularadjective

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   unpredictable, religious, sacred, regular, nonsecular, monastic, short-term, frequent, non-recurring, music, everlasting, cyclical, eternal

2. secularadjective

   Not specifically religious.

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   frequent, unpredictable, short-term, sacred, eternal, religious, music, regular, everlasting, cyclical, nonsecular, non-recurring, monastic

3. secularadjective

   Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   monastic, short-term, music, religious, non-recurring, eternal, nonsecular, unpredictable, everlasting, cyclical, frequent, regular, sacred

4. secularadjective

   Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

   secular clergy in Catholicism

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   unpredictable, frequent, eternal, religious, sacred, everlasting, cyclical, monastic, music, short-term, nonsecular, non-recurring, regular

5. secularadjective

   Happening once in an age or century.

   The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   non-recurring, monastic, short-term, eternal, regular, cyclical, everlasting, nonsecular, sacred, frequent, religious, unpredictable, music

6. secularadjective

   Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   everlasting, cyclical, unpredictable, religious, nonsecular, monastic, non-recurring, music, regular, eternal, short-term, frequent, sacred

7. secularadjective

   Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   monastic, music, non-recurring, regular, unpredictable, eternal, everlasting, nonsecular, sacred, frequent, religious, cyclical, short-term

8. secularadjective

   Unperturbed over time.

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   regular, frequent, everlasting, sacred, short-term, nonsecular, monastic, religious, non-recurring, cyclical, unpredictable, eternal, music

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1. secular

   Synonyms:
   abominable, common, cursed, impure, polluted, unconsecrated, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, wicked, worldly

   Antonyms:
   blessed, consecrated, devoted, divine, hallowed, holy, sacred, saintly, set apart

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1. secular

   Synonyms:
   worldly, profane, civil, unmonastic, temporal, laic

   Antonyms:
   regular, religious, monastic, spiritual, clerical

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1. layman, layperson, secularadjective

   someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

   Synonyms:
   layman, layperson

   Antonyms:
   sacred, religious

2. secularadjective

   of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

   Synonyms:
   profane, lay, temporal, laic, worldly

   Antonyms:
   sacred, religious

3. worldly, secular, temporaladjective

   characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

   "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

   Synonyms:
   profane, lay, blase, temporal, laic, worldly

   Antonyms:
   sacred, religious

4. profane, secularadjective

   not concerned with or devoted to religion

   "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"

   Synonyms:
   lay, worldly, unconsecrated, profane, blasphemous, laic, unsanctified, temporal, sacrilegious, blue

   Antonyms:
   religious, sacred

5. secularadjective

   of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows

   "the secular clergy"

   Synonyms:
   profane, lay, temporal, laic, worldly

   Antonyms:
   sacred, religious

6. laic, lay, secularadjective

   characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy

   "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"

   Synonyms:
   lay, profane, temporal, laic, worldly

   Antonyms:
   sacred, religious

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1. secularadjective

   Synonyms:
   temporal, worldly, civil, profane, lay, not spiritual

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1. secularadjective

   Synonyms:
   temporal, worldly, laic, civil

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1. List of paraphrases for "secular":

   age-old, secularism, centuries-old, secularist, lay, non-denominational, non-religious, centuries-long, layman, layperson, non-confessional, worldly, century-old

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1. Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death":

   And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

2. Henry Van Dyke:

   Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

3. Zeng Cun:

   We have to take strides forward as a secular, modern country, but in some places in Kashgar from last year there are face veils and head coverings. This is equivalent to retreating back over the modern, secular strides we have taken. This is a cultural reverse.

4. Jeffrey Saut:

   I think we are in a secular bull market that has another eight to 10 years ahead of it.

5. Billy Graham:

   America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.