extraterrestrial

1. 1.

   a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

   Synonymsextraterrestrial beingalien

   Broaderhypothetical creature

1. 1.

   originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere

   “is there extraterrestrial life?”

Other forms of extraterrestrial

plural

extraterrestrials·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about extraterrestrial

What does extraterrestrial mean?

extraterrestrial means "a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in extraterrestrial?

extraterrestrial has 6 syllables: ex-tra-ter-res-tri-al. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /ˌɛkstɹətɚˈɛstɹiəl/.

What is another word for extraterrestrial?

Close synonyms include extraterrestrial being, alien. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extraterrestrial a common word?

extraterrestrial is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with extraterrestrial?

1 word rhymes with extraterrestrial. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.