secular

English

Alternative forms

• sæcular (archaic)

Etymology

Latin saecularis, of the age, from saeculum

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɛk.jə.lə(ɹ)/, /sɛk.jʊu.lɑː(ɹ)/ (UK)

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Adjective

secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)

1. Not specifically religious.
2. Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
3. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

   secular clergy in Catholicism

4. Happening once in an age or century.

   The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.

5. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.

   The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.

   on a secular basis

6. (astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
7. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
   • 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539

     The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

Synonyms

• worldly (1)

Antonyms

• nonsecular
• religious (1)
• sacred (1) (used especially of music)
• monastic (2)
• regular (2) (as regular clergy in Catholicism)
• eternal (3)
• everlasting (3)
• frequent (4)
• unpredictable (4)
• non-recurring (4)
• short-term (5) (finance)
• cyclical (5) (finance)

Translations

not specifically religious

Arabic: دنياوي (ar) (dunyawiy), علماني (ar) (3almaniy) Chinese: Mandarin: 世俗 (cmn) (shìsú), 凡 (cmn) (fán), 塵俗 (cmn), 尘俗 (cmn) (chénsú), 非宗教 (cmn) (fēizōngjiāo) Czech: světský (cs) Finnish: maallinen (fi) French: séculier (fr), laïque (fr), mondain (fr) German: säkular (de), weltlich (de)

Hindi: पन्थनिरपेक्ष  (hi) (panthnirpeksh) Italian: secolare (it) Japanese: 世俗的な (ja) (せぞくてきな, sezokuteki-na), 世俗の (ja) (せぞくの, sezoku-no), 非宗教的な (ja) (ひしゅうきょうてきな, hishūkyōteki-na) Polish: świecki (pl) Portuguese: secular (pt) Russian: светский (ru) (svétskij), мирской (ru) (mirskój), секулярный (ru) (sekuljárnyj) Spanish: seglar (es), laico (es), mundano (es), secular (es) Swedish: sekulär (sv)

temporal

Finnish: maallinen (fi), ajallinen (fi)

not bound by the vows of a monastic order

Finnish: maallikko- (fi)

happening once in an age or century

Finnish: sekulaarinen (fi)

Italian: secolare (it)

long-term

Finnish: pysyvä (fi), pitkäaikainen (fi)

Swedish: sekulär (sv), långsamt skeende (sv)

astrophysics: of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities

Finnish: sekulaarinen (fi)

atomic physics: unperturbed over time

Finnish: sekulaarinen (fi)

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Dutch: seculier French: profane Italian: secolare Malayalam: മതേതരം (mathEtharam) (2) Spanish: seglar (1,2), secular (1,2,3)

References

• Webster's English Dictionary

Anagrams

• recusal

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Portuguese

Adjective

secular m. and f. (plural seculares; comparable)

1. secular