English Explanatory Dictionary

temporal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
  2. Relating to time:
  3. Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
  4. Lasting for a short time only.
  5. Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
  6. Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
  7. Relating to or denoting time or tense.
noun
  1. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
adj
  1. Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of temporal bone.
  2. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-temporal.wav

Word forms

temporal more temporal most temporal temporals

Etymology

From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.

Synonyms

secular lay civil worldly areligious earthly irreligious laicist laicistic mundane nonreligious profane temporal unconsecrated unsanctified chronological

Antonyms

spiritual ecclesiastical

Derived words

abtemporal antitemporal atemporal biotemporal contemporal cotemporal geotemporal hypertemporal intertemporal isotemporal metatemporal microtemporal monotemporal multitemporal nontemporal omnitemporal phylotemporal physiotemporal pretemporal pseudotemporal retrotemporal sociotemporal spatiotemporal spatio-temporal spectrotemporal supertemporal supratemporal temporal case temporal dead zone temporal deixis temporal distributive temporal hour temporalism temporality temporalize temporalise temporal logic temporally temporalness temporal organ temporalty transtemporal unitemporal visuotemporal extratemporal anterotemporal auriculotemporal basotemporal basitemporal bitemporal centrotemporal corticotemporal deep temporal nerve dorsotemporal frontotemporal inferotemporal infratemporal intratemporal laterotemporal mediotemporal

Translations

Belarusian: ча́савы Belarusian: тымчасо́вы Belarusian: часо́вы Bulgarian: веко́вен Bulgarian: свъ́рзан с вре́мето Bulgarian: вре́менен Catalan: temporal Chinese Mandarin: 時間的 /时间的 Chinese Mandarin: 短暫 /短暂 Czech: časový Czech: dočasný Estonian: aja- Estonian: ajaline Estonian: ajutine Finnish: aika- Finnish: ajallinen Finnish: väliaikainen French: temporel French: temporaire Georgian: დროებითი Georgian: გარდამავალი German: zeitlich German: temporal German: zeitweilig German: vorübergehend German: temporär Greek: χρονικός Hungarian: idő- Hungarian: időbeli Hungarian: múlékony Hungarian: múló Hungarian: átmeneti Hungarian: ideiglenes Hungarian: időleges Irish: aimseartha Italian: temporale Latin: temporālis Latin: temporārius Norwegian Bokmål: temporal Norwegian Bokmål: temporær Norwegian Bokmål: midlertidig Persian: زمانی Polish: czasowy Polish: tymczasowy Portuguese: temporal Portuguese: temporário Romanian: temporal Romanian: temporar Russian: временно́й Russian: вре́менный Slovak: časový Slovak: dočasný Spanish: temporal Swedish: tidsmässig Swedish: tidsbunden Swedish: temporal Swedish: tids- Swedish: temporär Turkish: zamana ait Turkish: zamansal Turkish: geçici Turkish: fani Ukrainian: часови́й Ukrainian: тимчасо́вий Dutch: tijdelijk Hebrew: זמני Manx: çherraghtagh
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