What is the opinion of a cultured, secular and sincere man?
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Secular
//ˈsɛkjʊlə//
Synonyms for "secular" (134 found)
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Related words (67)
nonordainednonpastoralnonpracticingnonreligiousnonsacrednonspiritualoutwardparishionerphilistinephysicalpopularpositivisticpracticalpractical-mindedpragmaticpragmaticalquarterlyquotidianrationalrealist
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realisticreasonablereprobatesanescientificscientisticsecularistsecularisticsemestralsemiannualsemimonthlysemiweeklysemiyearlysensiblesistersober-mindedsomaticsoundsound-thinkingstatestraight-thinkingsubstantialtemporalterrestrialtertiantriennialunblessedunhallowedunholyunidealunidealisticunregenerateunreligiousunromanticunsacredunsanctifiedunsentimentalunspiritualweeklyyearly
Adjective(4 words)
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12 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
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16 entriesTranslations
140 translations across 61 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- laik adj (not specifically religious)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄθεος adj (not specifically religious)
Arabic
2 entries- دُنْيَوِيّ adj (not specifically religious)
- عَلْمَانِيّ adj (not specifically religious)
Armenian
1 entries- աշխարհիկ adj (not specifically religious)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dünyəvi adj (not specifically religious)
Belarusian
1 entries- све́цкі adj (not specifically religious)
Bulgarian
4 entries- веко́вен adj (temporal)
- ми́рски adj (not specifically religious)
- продължи́телен adj (long-term)
- све́тски adj (not specifically religious)
Catalan
2 entries- laic adj (not specifically religious)
- secular adj (not specifically religious)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 世俗 adj (not specifically religious)
- 凡 adj (not specifically religious)
- 塵俗 /尘俗 adj (not specifically religious)
- 非宗教 adj (not specifically religious)
Czech
2 entries- světský adj (not specifically religious)
- světský adj (not bound by the vows of a monastic order)
Danish
2 entries- sekulær adj (not specifically religious)
- verdslig adj (not specifically religious)
Dutch
4 entries- lange termijn adj (long-term)
- seculier adj (not specifically religious)
- tijdelijk adj (temporal)
- wereldlijk adj (not specifically religious)
Esperanto
1 entries- sekulara adj (not specifically religious)
Finnish
4 entries- ajallinen adj (temporal)
- maallikko adj (not bound by the vows of a monastic order)
- maallinen adj (not specifically religious)
- maallinen adj (temporal)
French
4 entries- laïque adj (not specifically religious)
- mondain adj (not specifically religious)
- séculaire adj (happening once in an age or century)
- séculier adj (not specifically religious)
Galician
1 entries- secular adj (not specifically religious)
Georgian
1 entries- სეკულარული adj (not specifically religious)
German
2 entries- säkular adj (not specifically religious)
- weltlich adj (not specifically religious)
Greek
2 entries- κοσμικός adj (not specifically religious)
- κοσμικός adj (temporal)
Hebrew
2 entries- חול adj (not specifically religious)
- חילוני adj (not specifically religious)
Hindi
1 entries- पन्थनिरपेक्ष adj (not specifically religious)
Hungarian
1 entries- világi adj (not specifically religious)
Icelandic
1 entries- veraldlegur adj (not specifically religious)
Indonesian
4 entries- sekuler adj (not specifically religious)
- sekuler adj (temporal)
- sekulir adj (not bound by the vows of a monastic order)
- sekulir noun (secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules)
Irish
2 entries- saolta adj (not specifically religious)
- tuata adj (not specifically religious)
Italian
4 entries- centennale adj (happening once in an age or century)
- laico adj (not specifically religious)
- secolare adj (not specifically religious)
- secolare adj (not bound by the vows of a monastic order)
Japanese
3 entries- 世俗の adj (not specifically religious)
- 世俗的な adj (not specifically religious)
- 非宗教的な adj (not specifically religious)
Kazakh
3 entries- дүниелік adj (not specifically religious)
- дүнияуи adj (not specifically religious)
- зайырлы adj (not specifically religious)
Korean
1 entries- 세속적 adj (not specifically religious)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- дүйнөлүк adj (not specifically religious)
Lao
1 entries- ທາງໂລກ adj (not specifically religious)
Latin
1 entries- profānus adj (not specifically religious)
Macedonian
1 entries- светски adj (not specifically religious)
Malay
1 entries- sekular adj (not specifically religious)
Malayalam
1 entries- മതേതര adj (not specifically religious)
Māori
3 entries- hāhikore adj (not specifically religious)
- whakawhenua adj (not specifically religious)
- whakawhenua adj (temporal)
Norman
2 entries- sétchulyi adj (not specifically religious)
- sétchulyi adj (temporal)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- sekuler adj (not specifically religious)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sekulær adj (not specifically religious)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دنیوی adj (not specifically religious)
Persian
2 entries- دنیوی adj (not specifically religious)
- سکولار adj (not specifically religious)
Polish
2 entries- laicki adj (not specifically religious)
- świecki adj (not specifically religious)
Portuguese
4 entries- laico adj (not specifically religious)
- secular adj (not specifically religious)
- secular adj (temporal)
- secular adj (happening once in an age or century)
Romanian
2 entries- laic adj (not specifically religious)
- secular adj (not specifically religious)
Russian
3 entries- мирско́й adj (not specifically religious)
- све́тский adj (not specifically religious)
- секуля́рный adj (not specifically religious)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- saoghalta adj (not specifically religious)
- saoghalta adj (temporal)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- svetovan adj (not specifically religious)
- svjetovan adj (not specifically religious)
- светован adj (not specifically religious)
- свјетован adj (not specifically religious)
Slovak
1 entries- svetský adj (not specifically religious)
Slovene
2 entries- posveten adj (not specifically religious)
- sekularen adj (not specifically religious)
Spanish
4 entries- laico adj (not specifically religious)
- mundano adj (not specifically religious)
- secular adj (not specifically religious)
- secular adj (temporal)
Swedish
4 entries- långsamt skeende adj (long-term)
- sekulär adj (not specifically religious)
- sekulär adj (long-term)
- världslig adj (not specifically religious)
Tagalog
1 entries- banwahanin adj (not specifically religious)
Tajik
2 entries- дунявӣ adj (not specifically religious)
- ғайридинӣ adj (not specifically religious)
Thai
1 entries- ทางโลก adj (not specifically religious)
Turkish
2 entries- dünyevi adj (not specifically religious)
- seküler adj (not specifically religious)
Turkmen
1 entries- dünýewi adj (not specifically religious)
Ukrainian
2 entries- мирськи́й adj (not specifically religious)
- сві́тський adj (not specifically religious)
Urdu
1 entries- دُنیاوی adj (not specifically religious)
Uzbek
1 entries- dunyoviy adj (not specifically religious)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thế tục adj (not specifically religious)
Yiddish
1 entries- סעקולער adj (not specifically religious)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Education should be firm in explaining to young children that differences exist and have to be respected — therefore the importance of a secular and impartial state.
Source: tatoeba (1343243)
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
Source: tatoeba (1768567)
I believe that education should be secular, not rooted in religion.
Source: tatoeba (2098858)
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