secular

Plural: seculars

Noun

• A person not belonging to a religious or monastic order.
• someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
• A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
• A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
• A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

Adjective

• of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
• characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
• not concerned with or devoted to religion; ; ; ,
  • "secular drama"
  • "secular architecture"
• of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
  • "the secular clergy"

Adjective Satellite

• characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy

Adj

• Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.
• Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
• Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
• Happening once in an age or century.
• Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
• Centuries-old, ancient.
• Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
• Unperturbed over time.

Examples

• Among the devout word-game players, he remained a secular, focusing purely on strategy.
• on a secular basis
• secular clergy in Catholicism
• The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
• The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.

Synonyms

laic, lay, layman, layperson, profane, temporal, worldly, multisecular, plurisecular

Antonyms

clergyman, religious, sacred, unworldly, cyclical, eternal, everlasting, frequent, monastic, non-recurring, nonsecular, regular, short-term, unpredictable

Related Words

material, mundane, practical, quotidian, rational, secle

Anagrams of secular