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planetbound

planetbound adjective: unable to leave the planet one is on.

Adjective

planetbound (not comparable)

  1. Unable to leave the planet one is on.
    • I'll bet a hat that Isaac Asimov could knock us all for a row of uranium cans if he wrote about something a leetle more familiar to us poor planet-bound humans. This massive sweep of millions of light years and thousands of centuries away was hot stuff fifteen years ago. Isaac, please come home...1953 July, George O. Smith, Space Science Fiction, page 94
  2. Heading towards a planet.
    • Our orbital scans are screaming red. Multiple drop ships are planetbound.2004, MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf

Origin of planetbound

From planet + -bound.

Questions about planetbound

What does planetbound mean?
Planetbound means unable to leave the planet one is on.
What part of speech is planetbound?
Planetbound is an adjective.

Words near planetbound in the dictionary

  1. planetary systems
  2. planetary wave
  3. planetary waves
  4. planetball
  5. planetballs
  6. planetbound
  7. planetcide
  8. planetdom
  9. planeted
  10. planeteer
  11. planeteers

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