Earthly and Real

Earthly

Earthly adjective - Having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven.

Real and earthly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Real" instead an adjective "Earthly".

Nearby Words: earth, earthy, earthen

Real

Real adjective - Being exactly as appears or as claimed.

Earthly and real are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Earthly" instead an adjective "Real".

Nearby Words: realize, realise, reality, realistic, really

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / Christianity There are at least 5,000 Canonical Saints (the most important being "The Virgin" Mary, who was Jesus' earthly mother), though some of them may be more legends than real people.
  • Crowley incorrectly assumes that Bobby is trying to get his soul back from him by using his son as a bargaining chip, but Bobby reveals that he knows Crowley and his son hate each other, and that the real bargaining chip is Crowley's earthly remains, whose location Gavin was happy to give him.
  • Anime / Armitage III When Earth finds this out, they pretty much declare The War of Earthly Aggression - scrap the baby machines and we'll send some real women, or you can all die.
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