earthly
/ˈəːθli/ adjective C1- 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.
- Used in negative contructions for emphasis. · There is no earthly way, I mean no way on earth, that I will ever do that.
Comparative earthlier · Superlative earthliest
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That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss.
“I don’t dare go out,” said Anne, in the tone of a martyr relinquishing all earthly joys.
Green it might be called, if it were any earthly color--a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect.
In Lydia’s imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness.
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