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erthly

erthly is the obsolete form of earthly.

Meaning of earthly

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.
  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.

See all 6 meanings of earthly

Forms of erthly

comparativemore erthly
superlativemost erthly

Questions about erthly

What is erthly the obsolete form of?
Erthly is the obsolete form of earthly.

Words near erthly in the dictionary

  1. Ertebølle
  2. erted
  3. Ertel
  4. Ertels
  5. erter
  6. erthly
  7. erting
  8. ertings
  9. ertiprotafib
  10. Ertix
  11. ertixiite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: erthly (page history and authors); earthly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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