Dictionary Definition
bodily adj
1 of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a
bodily organ"; "bodily functions"; "carnal remains" [syn: carnal]
2 affecting or characteristic of the body as
opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect";
"corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn:
corporal, corporeal, somatic]
3 having or relating to a physical material body;
"bodily existence" adv : in bodily form; "he was translated bodily
to heaven"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
See bodyAdjective
- of, related to, or concerning the body
- His bodily deficiencies were a heavy burden to him.
Translations
related to the body
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Adamic,
Circean, across the
board, all, all put
together, altogether,
animal, animalistic, as a body, as a
whole, at large, atavistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, born, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, coeval, collectively, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, corporal, corporately, corporeal, earthly, earthy, en bloc, en masse,
entirely, fallen, fleshly, genetic, gross, hereditary, hylic, in a body, in all, in all
respects, in bulk, in its entirety, in person, in propria persona,
in the aggregate, in the blood, in the flesh, in the gross, in the
lump, in the mass, in toto, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, lapsed, material, materialistic, materiate, native, native to, natural, natural to, nonspiritual, on all
counts, organic,
orgiastic, personally, physical, postlapsarian, primal, secular, sensual, somatic, substantial, swinish, temperamental, temporal, totally, tout ensemble, unspiritual, wholly, worldly