earthlier

Adjective

earthly (comparative earthlier, superlative earthliest)

1. Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven or the heavens.
   • The Garden of Earthly Delights is full of earthly joys alongside grotesqueries, monstrosities, and torture.

   Synonyms:

   worldly, worldy, terrestrial, material, mundane, sublunar, sublunary, profane, temporal, areligious

   Antonyms:

   heavenly, celestial, otherworldly, ethereal, empyreal, empyrean, etheric, transcendental, sublime, spiritual

2. (obsolete) Made of earth; earthy.
   • We have this […] treasure in frail, brittle, and earthly vessels.1533, John Frith, An Other Boke against Rastel
3. (informal) Used in negative contructions for emphasis.
   • There is no earthly way, I mean no way on earth, that I will ever do that.

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