mercenary vs secular

mercenary and secular both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mercenary	Yes	Yes	No	No
secular	Yes	Yes	No	No

mercenary (noun)	secular (noun)
a person hired to fight for another country than their own	someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

mercenary (adjective)	secular (adjective)
profit oriented	of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
serving for wages in a foreign army	not concerned with or devoted to religion
marked by materialism	characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
	of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
	characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy