Meaning

3 senses
  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.

    weltlich

    земно́йzemnój, мирско́йmirskój, су́етныйsújetnyj

    of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven

  2. (informal)Used in negative contructions for emphasis.

    There is no earthly way, I mean no way on earth, that I will ever do that.

  3. (obsolete)Made of earth; earthy.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Hawaii is known as an earthly paradise.

    ruГавайи называют земным раем. — shanghainese

    deHawaii nennt man Paradies auf Erden. — Esperantostern

  2. You people are urged to drop the earthly impulse.

    Ви, люди, маєте відкинути земні імпульси. — pinaxe

  3. Your plan is of no earthly use.

    ruТвой план совершенно бесполезный. — Svetislava

  4. Life never ends but earthly life does.

    ruЖизнь никогда не заканчивается, но земная жизнь - да. — marafon

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  5. I do not care for earthly matters.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
as opposed to heaven:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
as opposed to heaven:

Origin

From Middle English erthely, erthlich, ierðlich, from Old English eorþlīċ, corresponding t

From Middle English erthely, erthlich, ierðlich, from Old English eorþlīċ, corresponding to earth + -ly. Cognate with Old Norse jarðligr (“earthly”).

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