extraterrestrial being

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsextraterrestrialalien

   Broaderhypothetical creature

Questions about extraterrestrial being

What does extraterrestrial being mean?

extraterrestrial being means "a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere".

What is another word for extraterrestrial being?

Close synonyms include extraterrestrial, 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 being a common word?

extraterrestrial being is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.