planetary
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Synonyms & Antonyms for planetary
Synonyms
astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping
Antonyms
bantam, bitty, diminutive, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, little bitty, micro, microminiature, microscopic (also microscopical), midget, miniature, minuscule, minute, pocket, pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee
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The planetary collision triggered wildfires inland, burning forests that were later doused by the devastating waves. — Riley Black, Smithsonian, "What Happened the Day a Giant, Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit the Earth," 9 Sep. 2019 Spaceflight, however, has the potential to be more than just a planetary escape hatch for eccentric billionaires. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, "Can Spaceflight Save the Planet?," 6 Sep. 2019 And now there's a new member to that strange planetary pantheon: HR 5183 b. — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, "This Exoplanet Has the Weirdest Orbit We've Ever Seen," 27 Aug. 2019 Cultures that lived closer to nature were in tune and quite sensitive to seasonal changes, weather, solar, lunar, planetary and celestial movements. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: Tune in to nature to sense seasons’ subtle changes," 24 Aug. 2019 The sphere’s millions of LEDs completely obscured Prydz when fully lit up, displaying everything from blue, microbial circles to rocky, planetary forms and spinning robotic bodies. — Dani Deahl, The Verge, "Eric Prydz’s 5-ton Holosphere shows the ambitious future of concert tech," 20 Aug. 2019 Overhead, a phalanx of sensors, aircraft, and balloons will probe the Arctic atmosphere, which has warmed twice as fast as the planetary average. — Eli Kintisch, Science | AAAS, "Arctic researchers will lock this ship in ice for a year to study the changing polar region," 20 Aug. 2019 Here in the planetary skies, all of ourselves equal one to one. — Conor Orr, SI.com, "There Is Still So Much We Don’t Know About Jimmy Garoppolo," 20 Aug. 2019 Bill Conti won an Oscar for his score.(Warner Bros.) Holst wrote his planetary symphony in the 1910s, after a friend introduced him to astrology. — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, "Hollywood Bowl concert goes to outer space, from ‘The Planets’ to ‘First Man’," 15 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'planetary.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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