planetary

Speech parts

1. planetary - Noun

2. planetary - Adjective

3. planetary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.

Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.

Under the dominion or influence of a planet.

Caused by planets.

Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.

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Examples

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. Carl Sagan

Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope. Glenn Beck

One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction. I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled. Martin Amis

We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes. Nicolaus Copernicus

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. Al Gore

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. Sylvia Plath

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