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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets;
- Example: "planetary motion"
- Example: "planetary year"
[syn: planetal, planetary]

2. of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants;
- Example: "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley
- Example: "the planetary tilt"
- Example: "this terrestrial ball"
[syn: planetary, terrestrial]

3. having no fixed course;
- Example: "an erratic comet"
- Example: "his life followed a wandering course"
- Example: "a planetary vagabond"
[syn: erratic, planetary, wandering]

4. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope;
- Example: "global war"
- Example: "global monetary policy"
- Example: "neither national nor continental but planetary"
- Example: "a world crisis"
- Example: "of worldwide significance"
[syn: global, planetary, world(a), worldwide, world-wide]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Planetary \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. [1913 Webster] 2. Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system. [1913 Webster] 3. (Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." --Drayton. [1913 Webster] 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life." --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

planetary adj 1: of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year" [syn: planetal, planetary] 2: 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" [syn: planetary, terrestrial] 3: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary, wandering] 4: 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" [syn: global, planetary, world(a), worldwide, world-wide]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

118 Moby Thesaurus words for "planetary": Antaean, Cynthian, aberrant, aberrative, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, catholic, celestial, circuitous, circumplanetary, cislunar, colossal, cosmic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, cyclopean, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, ecumenic, ecumenical, elephantine, empyreal, empyrean, enormous, equinoctial, errant, erratic, excursive, extragalactic, galactic, gigantic, global, heaven-wide, heavenly, 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, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stray, swerving, terrestrial, total, turning, twisting, undirected, universal, uranic, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, world-wide, worldwide, zigzag, zodiacal