Antonyms for earthbound


Grammar : Adj
Spell : urth-bound
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɜrθˌbaʊnd


Definition of earthbound

  • adj earthly
  • adj dull
Example sentences :
  • Can we charter a plane to haul our Earthbound cargo out of Marsport?
  • Extract from : « Atom Drive » by Charles Louis Fontenay
  • Every railroad journey found him wandering like an earthbound spirit between his seat and the luggage van.
  • Extract from : « Edgar Saltus: The Man » by Marie Saltus
  • Moreover, it's appropriate; but I'm down here, you know, earthbound and extremely mortal.
  • Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck
  • Eusebius goes so far as to believe that ‘earthbound spirits’ do speak through the medium, but a much simpler theory is obvious.
  • Extract from : « Cock Lane and Common-Sense » by Andrew Lang
  • That, outside of fairy books, an earthbound being could actually be in a cloud, was beyond my imagination.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • Again and again the drake tried to fly, only to realize at last that he was clipped and shamed and earthbound.
  • Extract from : « Wild Folk » by Samuel Scoville
  • This was a proof that they needed one to come from above, that they might be delivered from their downward, earthbound nature.
  • Extract from : « The Gospel of St. John » by Frederick Denison Maurice
  • Whether explicitly stated or not, nature was seen as earthbound, the source of our existence, the provider.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • The ether no longer carries the sound from his lips to my ear's shell the silvery thread has snapped—Woe is me, I am earthbound!
  • Extract from : « Plays--First Series » by August Strindberg
  • Something is coming, and, if that something is not the phantasm of him whom I believe is earthbound, whose phantasm is it?
  • Extract from : « Byways of Ghost-Land » by Elliott O'Donnell

Synonyms for earthbound

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