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1. Of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
    
2. Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
   - worldly, temporal
    
3. Not concerned with or devoted to religion
   "secular drama"; "secular architecture"
   - profane
    
4. Of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
   "the secular clergy"
    
5. Characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
   - laic, lay
    
6. Having only slow changes, or changing only over a long or indefinite period of time; happening only once in a long time, esp. once a century

1. Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
   - layman, layperson, laywoman

Derived forms: seculars

See also: earthly, economic, impious, material, materialistic, mercenary, mundane, profanatory, secularism, sophisticated, terrestrial, worldly-minded

Type of: common man, common person, commoner

Antonym: religious

Part of: laity, temporalty

Encyclopedia: Secular