secular – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of secular

Adjective: secular

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore secular
Superlativemost secular

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonym: nonmonastic
  • secular clergy in Catholicism
  • Near-synonyms: centurial, centennial
  • The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
  • The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
  • on a secular basis
  • In this event, the s#92;phi(k) curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the #92;lambdak ray and also in larger values of #92;bark. [2005, Alpha Chiang, Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill International, page 501:]
  • The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend. [2006, “Economics focus: Dividing the pie”, in The Economist:]
  • The timing of the secular change in the labor wedge coincides with the changing nature of fluctuations that we saw in the data post-1985. [2025 December 26, Marina Azzimonti, Per Krusell, Alisdair McKay, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Macroeconomics, December 2025 edition, retrieved 13 Jul 2026, page 437:]
  • Growing evidence indicates a secular, age-independent decline in testosterone levels across populations, a trend associated with reduced fertility, metabolic and cardiovascular dysfunction, mood disturbances, and impaired quality of life. [2026 January 9, “Understanding the Secular Decline in Testosterone: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Clinical Perspectives”, in International Journal of Molecular Sciences, volume 27, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 692:]
  • The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings. [1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):]
  • Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter was not secular after all; the observations at hand had covered only a fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years. [2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235:]
  • The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ... [2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539]

Etymology

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum. See: Latin Adjectives 'saeculāris'.

Verbs referencing "secular"

Finnish Adjectives sekulaarinen.