different between cynical vs secular

English

Etymology

Originated 1580–90 from cynic +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n?k?l/
• Homophone: sinical

Adjective

cynical (comparative more cynical, superlative most cynical)

1. Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
2. Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
3. Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.

   • He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark-for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

4. Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.

   • When he, at Neergard's cynical suggestion, had consented to exploit his own club […] and had consented to resign from it to do so, he had every reason to believe that Neergard meant to either mulct them heavily or buy them out. In either case, having been useful to Neergard, his profits from the transaction would have been considerable.

5. (medicine, rare) Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.

Translations

References

• “cynical”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “cynical” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "cynical" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
• cynical at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• calycin

English

Alternative forms

• sæcular (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saecul?ris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?kj?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?kj?l??/

Adjective

secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)

1. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
2. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
3. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

4. Happening once in an age or century.

5. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
   • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501

     In this event, the ${\displaystyle s\phi (k)}$ curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the ${\displaystyle \lambda k}$ ray and also in larger values of ${\displaystyle {\bar {k}}}$.
6. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
7. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
   • 2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235:

     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.

8. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
   • 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539

     The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ?_? and ?_? are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

Synonyms

• (not religious): worldly
• (centuries old): plurisecular, multisecular

Antonyms

• nonsecular
• (not religious): religious
• (not religious): sacred (used especially of music)
• (not bound by monastic vows): monastic
• (not bound by monastic vows): regular (as regular clergy in Catholicism)
• eternal, everlasting
• frequent
• unpredictable
• non-recurring
• (finance): short-term
• (finance): cyclical

Derived terms

• multisecular
• paleosecular
• plurisecular
• secularism
• secularist
• secularize
• secularly
• semisecular

Translations

Noun

secular (plural seculars)

1. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

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2. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

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3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

Translations

References

• secular at OneLook Dictionary Search
• secular in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• secular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Webster's English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Clauser, cesural, recusal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?.ku?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se.ku?la?/

Adjective

secular (masculine and feminine plural seculars)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularitzar
• secularment

Further reading

• “secular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “secular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “secular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “secular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris.

Adjective

secular (plural seculares, comparable)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularizar
• secularmente

Further reading

• “secular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French séculaire, from Latin saecularis.

Adjective

secular m or n (feminine singular secular?, masculine plural seculari, feminine and neuter plural seculare)

1. secular

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris. Doublet of seglar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seku?la?/, [se.ku?la?]

Adjective

secular (plural seculares)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularizar
• secularmente

Further reading

• “secular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.