BODILY Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

bodily

adjective

ˈbä-də-lē

Definition of bodily

as in physical

of or relating to the human body the old man suffered from a number of bodily ailments

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Recent Examples of bodily Rodriguez pleaded no contest in December 2025 to assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and was sentenced in January to two years of probation. — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 Throw in a dash of bodily horror, and suddenly Hig’s descent into a pit of obvious-from-space disaster becomes the film’s most interesting sequence, with all the good and bad that interesting entails. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026 Deputy Isaiah Williams is charged with domestic battery by strangulation, battery causing bodily harm, tampering or fabricating evidence and robbery sudden snatching. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026 Karen Solomon was wanted for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon with serious bodily injury, Saucier said at a news conference Friday. — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bodily

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physical

Adjective

At face value, young men exercising should not be reason to sound the alarms, and yet there is something treacherous about men in their formative years placing physical beauty as the ultimate expression of self-actualization.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026
Back in 2015, Parton and her team buried a chestnut box filled with physical copies of a brand new song in two formats, cassette and CD, along with their corresponding players, under her Dollywood DreamMore Resort and Spa.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

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