Antonyms of adj earthly

1 sense of earthly

Sense 1
earthly (vs. heavenly) -- (of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home")

heavenly (vs. earthly) -- (of or belonging to heaven or god)
        => ambrosial, ambrosian -- (worthy of the gods)
        => celestial, ethereal, supernal -- (of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death")
        => divine, godly -- (emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review)
        => divine, godlike -- (being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe)
        => paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaical, paradisaic, paradisal -- (relating to or befitting Paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocence")
        => providential, divine -- (resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation")
        => translunar, translunary, superlunar, superlunary -- (unworldly or ethereal; "high translunary dreams")

Similarity of adj earthly

1 sense of earthly

Sense 1
earthly (vs. heavenly) -- (of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home")
       => earthborn -- (connected with earthly life; of earthly origin; "earthborn cares and pleasures")
       => earthbound -- (confined to the earth)
       => earthlike -- (resembling or characteristic of earth; "earthlike atmosphere")
       => mundane, terrene -- (belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"; "so terrene a being as himself")
       => sublunar, sublunary, terrestrial -- (of this earth; "transcendental motives for sublunary actions"; "fleeting sublunary pleasures"; "the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball")
       => temporal -- (of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence")
          Also See-> mortal#1; profane#2, secular#3; worldly#1, secular#2, temporal#4

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