temporal

Plural: temporals

Noun

• A large bone forming part of the side and base of the skull.
• the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
• Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
• Ellipsis of temporal bone.
• Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

Adjective Satellite

• not eternal; - F.D.Roosevelt
  • "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"
• of this earth or world
  • "temporal joys"
  • "our temporal existence"

Adjective

• of or relating to or limited by time
  • "temporal processing"
  • "temporal dimensions"
  • "temporal and spacial boundaries"
  • "music is a temporal art"
• of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
  • "temporal bone"
• characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
  • "temporal possessions of the church"

Adj

• Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
• Relating to time:
• Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
• Relating to time:
• Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
• Lasting for a short time only.
• Relating to time:
• Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
• Relating to time:
• Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
• Relating to time:
• Relating to or denoting time or tense.
• Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

Examples

• He felt a TEMPORAL ache after hours of intense Scrabble concentration.
• temporal power, temporal courts
• The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled

Synonyms

secular, temporal role, worldly, chronological, civil, lay

Antonyms

unworldly, ecclesiastical, spiritual

Anagrams of temporal