Secular
/ˈsɛkjʊlə/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Secular
noun
adjective
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
"secular clergy in Catholicism"
- 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."
- 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."
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SYNONYMS
multisecularplurisecularworldly
ANTONYMS
cyclicalshort-termmonasticregularmusicsacredreligiouseternaleverlastingfrequentnon-recurringnonsecularunpredictable