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earthly

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earthly
adjective
1 the mobile and metamorphosing earthly environment:
terrestrial, telluric, tellurian;
rare terrene, subastral.
antonyms extraterrestrial.
2 they were seduced by the promise of earthly delights:
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.
antonyms heavenly; spiritual.
3 informal there can be no earthly explanation for his behaviour:
feasible, possible, likely, conceivable, imaginable, perceivable.
earthly Oxford Dictionary of English