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Planetary
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What's The Definition Of Planetary?
[adj] 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"
[adj] having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [adj] of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year" [adj] of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball" Synonyms | Synonyms for Planetary: erratic | global | international | planetal | terrestrial | unsettled | wandering | world(a) | worldwide Related Terms | Find terms related to Planetary: aberrant | aberrative | all-comprehending | all-comprehensive | all-covering | all-embracing | all-encompassing | all-filling | all-including | all-inclusive | allover | all-pervading | anagalactic | Antaean | asteroidal | astral | astrologic | astrologistic | astrologous | astronomic | astrophysical | catholic | celestial | circuitous | circumplanetary | cislunar | colossal | cosmic | cosmopolitan | country-wide | cyclopean | Cynthian | departing | desultory | deviant | deviating | deviative | deviatory | devious | digressive | discursive | ecumenic | ecumenical | elephantine | empyreal | empyrean | enormous | equinoctial | errant | erratic | excursive | extragalactic | galactic | gigantic | global | heavenly | heaven-wide | 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 | starry | star-spangled | star-studded | stellar | stellary | stray | swerving | terrestrial | total | turning | twisting | undirected | universal | uranic | vagrant | veering | wandering | winding | worldwide | world-wide | zigzag | zodiacal See Also | Planetary In Webster's Dictionary \Plan"et*a*ry\, a. [Cf. L. planetarius an astrologer,
F. plan['e]taire planetary. See {Planet}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary
inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
2. Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
3. (Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
``Skilled in the planetary hours.'' --Drayton.
4. Caused by planets. ``A planetary plague.'' --Shak.
5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving;
wandering. ``Erratical and planetary life.'' --Fuller.
{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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