sublunar

1. 1.

   situated between the earth and the moon

   Synonymssublunarycislunar
2. 2.

   of this earth

   “transcendental motives for sublunary actions”

   “fleeting sublunary pleasures”

   “the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball”

   Synonymssublunaryterrestrial

   Similarearthly

Questions about sublunar

What does sublunar mean?

sublunar means "situated between the earth and the moon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sublunar?

sublunar has 3 syllables: su-blu-nar. The stress falls on "su".

What is another word for sublunar?

Close synonyms include sublunary, cislunar, sublunary, terrestrial. 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 sublunar a common word?

sublunar 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.