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How to pronounce terrestrial

IPA transcription: [tɚ'ɛstɹiəl]

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Adjective

  • of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

  • of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; - L.C.Eiseley

    “planetary rumblings and eructations”

    “the planetary tilt”

    “this terrestrial ball”

  • operating or living or growing on land

Adjective

  • concerned with the world or worldly matters

    “mundane affairs”

    “he developed an immense terrestrial practicality”

  • of this earth

    “transcendental motives for sublunary actions”

    “fleeting sublunary pleasures”

    “the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball”