Word Meanings - FLESHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.

Additional info about word: FLESHLY

1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton. 4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Pet. ii.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLESHLY)

• Carnal
• Fleshly
• sensual
• selfindulgent
• licentious
• animal
• coarse
• base
• worldly
• impure
• libidinous
• secular
• Corporal
• Bodily
• fleshly
• physical
• material
• corporeal
• Sensual
• voluptuous
• lewd

Related words: (words related to FLESHLY)

• CARNALIST
  A sensualist. Burton.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• SENSUALISTIC
  1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
• CORPOREALITY
  The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
• SENSUAL
  1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends,
• SENSUALISM
  The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• PHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• CORPORALITY
  1. The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More. 2. A confraternity; a guild. Milton.
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
  Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
• CATAPHYSICAL
  Unnatural; contrary to nature. Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• UNSECULARIZE
  To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
• BICORPORAL
  Having two bodies.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.