planetary

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}]
    

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.
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   2. Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
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   3. (Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
      "Skilled in the planetary hours." --Drayton.
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   4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." --Shak.
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   5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving;
      wandering. "Erratical and planetary life." --Fuller.
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   {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.
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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