planetbound

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English

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Etymology

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From planet +‎ -bound.

Adjective

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planetbound (not comparable)

  1. Unable to leave the planet one is on.
    • 1953 July, George O. Smith, Space Science Fiction, page 94:
      I'll bet a hat that Isaac Asimov could knock us all for a row of uranium cans if he wrote about something a leetle more familiar to us poor planet-bound humans. This massive sweep of millions of light years and thousands of centuries away was hot stuff fifteen years ago. Isaac, please come home, all is forgiven.