of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal

secular interests.

not pertaining to or connected with religion ( opposed to sacred )

secular music.

(of education, a school, etc.) concerned with nonreligious subjects.

(of members of the clergy) not belonging to a religious order; not bound by monastic vows ( opposed to regular ).

occurring or celebrated once in an age or century

the secular games of Rome.

going on from age to age; continuing through long ages.

a layperson.

one of the secular clergy.

adjective

godly , holy , religious , spiritual

adjective

civil , earthly , laic , laical , lay , material , materialistic , nonclerical , nonreligious , of this world , profane , temporal , unsacred , worldlynotes:sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects , while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature , earthbound , earthen , earthy , mundane , tellurian , telluric , terrene , terrestrial , worldly , layperson , nonspiritual