Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Fastened in or to the soil: earthbound roots.
- adj. Attached or confined to the earth or to earthly concerns: an earthbound existence.
- adj. Unimaginative; ordinary.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. confined to the earth
- adj. lacking wit or imagination
Etymologies
- earth + bound (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Outside, she'll be in your environment: earthbound, which is foreign to her.”
“Others improvised a kind of earthbound breaststroke.”
The Washington Post: Techno artist Pantha Du Prince brings a liquid beat to U Street Music Hall
“Right now, Kidman's look has taken her beyond the shoals of representing that kind of earthbound experience.”
“But NASA's strong history of innovation, as well as our dominance in space, is in danger because President Barack Obama has decided to shift the agency's mission to more "earthbound" tasks.”
“But the concept also showed some promise and has a particular appeal as a kind of earthbound Star Trek.”
“As she says our earthbound minds cannot grasp its unity.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Adam Jacobs: A Kabbalistic View Of Evolution
“The council, furious with his wasted effort, is about to disband in [despair] when in rushes a messenger saying that thousands upon thousands of space ships are earthbound to [rejuvenate] the home planet - because they heard the old songs and stories and were reminded of home.”
“Yet he ignores the paradox itself: If motion is really only relative—that is, if the earth-bound traveller, when viewed by the airborne one, is the one who seems to move—why does not the same effect also apply to the earthbound clock?”
“Feathers" is an earthbound book, but this does not keep the author—or the reader—from looking up in wonder.”
“When that happened, all the gods (who, it turns out, really did exist in ethereal forms, science be damned) became earthbound as humans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘earthbound’.
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jaydrox's list
Mah list!
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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Earth Words Are Easy
earth, earthquake, earthly, earthquakes, earthy, earthen, earths, earthenware, earth-shattering, earthworks, earthworms, earthbound and 43 more...
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marginalia
exuberance, potsherds, earthbound, marcher, märchen, pastiche, transliterated, crocodile, oxbridge, jejune, publican, antithesis and 143 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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junemoonchild's Favorite Words
Aubrey, astrology, Cancer, Taurus, dybbuk, enchantress, love, mystery, mysteriarch, spirit, melancholy, disintegration and 129 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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Bound bound
brassbound, browbound, clothbound, deskbound, duty-bound, earthbound, fogbound, frost-bound, housebound, icebound, ironbound, muscle-bound and 11 more...
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