transplanetary

[ trans-plan-i-ter-ee ]

adjective

1. farther from the sun than a given planet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of transplanetary¹

trans- + planetary

Example Sentences

Nowhere could the philosopher find cigar-smoking aviators or transplanetary love stories.

From The New Yorker

Nowhere could the philosopher find cigar-smoking aviators or transplanetary love stories.

From The New Yorker

They echoed, with a little less bombast, the tone of “Ambition,” the short film that ESA commissioned to spread the cometary gospel, in which a pair of scientist-magicians of the future, who are molding matter on a blasted heath, recall Rosetta as the birth of transplanetary humanity.

From The New Yorker