temporalEnglishOxford American Thesaurustemporal adjective 1 the temporal aspects of church government: secular, nonspiritual, worldly, profane, material, mundane, earthly, terrestrial; nonreligious, lay; carnal, fleshly, mortal, corporeal; rare sublunary, terrene. ▷antonyms spiritual. 2 spatial and temporal boundaries: of time, time-related.