terrestrial

  • (a) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air tellurian, terrene, telluric,
  • (a) 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
    planetary,
  • (a) operating or living or growing on land
  • (s) concerned with the world or worldly matters
    • mundane affairs
    • he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
    mundane,
  • (s) of this earth
    • transcendental motives for sublunary actions
    • fleeting sublunary pleasures
    • the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball
    sublunar, sublunary,

Synonyms

tellurian terrene telluric planetary mundane sublunar sublunary

Antonyms

amphibious aquatic

Words of close approximity

terrestrial dynamical time terrestrial guidance terrestrially terrestrial planet terrestrial time