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planetless en · ADJ

Etymology

From planet + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without planets.
    • The circumstance which, on the occasion of the discovery of Ceres, and the other so-called small planets, first forcibly recalled to mind Kepler's Pythagorean arguments, was his almost forgotten conjecture as to the probable existence of a yet unseen planet in the great planetless chasm between Mars and Jupiter. 1860, Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe:
    • A shoreless sea, a sky sunless and planetless. 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam:
  2. (not-comparable) Having no home planet.
    • Umlari, others called them. Or spacefolk. Or those planetless freaks. Living in their great stations, orbiting unwanted stars, the People cared nothing for names. 2006, Marvin Kaye, Forbidden planets, →ISBN, page 269:
    • He cleared his throat and began the tale of the planetless boy, and Kate listened, drowsy, drifting. 1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 222:
    • And I am not going to gamble half our resources on as crazy an effort as this, masterminded by a mouthful of planetless lunatics. 1961, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 20, Issues 1-6, page 163:

Translations (2)

ar بلا كوكب (without planets) · fi planeetaton (without planets)