Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for temporal

The synonym for temporal recorded in this bank is worldly, in the sense "characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for temporal

worldlyadjective, in the sense "characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day temporal is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineThinking and knowing

characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

Temporal possessions of the church.

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The true synonym

worldly

Same sentence, swapped: Worldly possessions of the church.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

unworldly
continuous
lasting

Where temporal turns up in the game

temporal is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where temporal is the trap

continuousadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is uninterrupted, in the sense "continuing in time or space without interruption", with temporal sitting one tile away.
worldlyadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is blase, in the sense "very sophisticated especially because of surfeit", with temporal sitting one tile away.

Play temporal

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so temporal reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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