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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

Planetary

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

plan=e=tar=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Planetary has 4 senses

planetary(a = adj.pert) planetal - of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year"

Derived form noun planet₁

planetary(a = adj.pert) terrestrial - of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball"
planetary(s = adj.all) erratic, wandering - having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
planetary(s = adj.all) global, world, world-wide, worldwide - involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Planetary, a. [Cf. L. planetarius an astrologer, F. planétaire planetary. See Planet.].

Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year. [1913 Webster]
Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system. [1913 Webster]
Under the dominion or influence of a planet. Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Caused by planets. Shak. [1913 Webster]
Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. Fuller. [1913 Webster]

Planetary days, the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day. Hutton. -- Planetary nebula, a nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Planetary, adj.
1 of or like planets (planetary influence).
2 terrestrial; mundane.
3 wandering; erratic.

Idiom

planetary nebula a ring-shaped nebula formed by an expanding shell of gas round a star.

Etymology

LL planetarius (as PLANET)

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THESAURUS

Planetary

Antaean, Cynthian, aberrant, aberrative, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, catholic, celestial, circuitous, circumplanetary, cislunar, colossal, cosmic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, cyclopean, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, ecumenic, ecumenical, elephantine, empyreal, empyrean, enormous, equinoctial, errant, erratic, excursive, extragalactic, galactic, gigantic, global, heaven-wide, heavenly, heliacal, immense, indirect, intercosmic, international, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, jumbo, labyrinthine, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, mazy, meandering, meteoric, meteoritic, monumental, national, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, nondenominational, nonsectarian, out-of-the-way, planetal, planetarian, planetesimal, rambling, roving, semilunar, serpentine, shifting, sidereal, snaky, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stray, swerving, terrestrial, total, turning, twisting, undirected, universal, uranic, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, world-wide, worldwide, zigzag, zodiacal

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