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translunary

translunary adjective: situated beyond or above the moon.

Adjective

translunary (comparative more translunary, superlative most translunary)

  1. Situated beyond or above the moon.
  2. Celestial, rather than earthly.
    Antonyms:
    sublunary
  3. Ideal; visionary.
    • Neat Marlow bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those braue translunary things1627, Michael Drayton, To my most dearly-loued Friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets & Poesie

Synonyms of translunary

Antonyms

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Forms of translunary

comparativemore translunary
superlativemost translunary

Origin of translunary

From trans- + lunary.

Questions about translunary

What does translunary mean?
Translunary means situated beyond or above the moon.
What part of speech is translunary?
Translunary is an adjective.

Words near translunary in the dictionary

  1. transluminator
  2. transluminent
  3. transluminescence
  4. transluminescent
  5. translunar
  6. translunary
  7. translymphatic
  8. transmagnetic
  9. transmale
  10. transmales
  11. transmalleolar

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