 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
galactic
adjective
1: of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky
Way); "the galactic plane"
2: inconceivably large [syn: {astronomic}, {astronomical}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Galactic \Ga*lac"tic\, adjective [Gr. ? milky, fr. ?, ?, milk. See
{Galaxy}, and cf. {Lactic}.]
1. Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic
acid.
2. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.
{Galactic circle} (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens,
to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms.
--Herschel.
{Galactic poles}, the poles of the galactic circle.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "galactic":
Cynthian, Gargantuan, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive,
all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling,
all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover,
amplitudinous, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic,
astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astronomical,
astrophysical, awesome, boundless, bulky, catholic, celestial,
circumplanetary, cislunar, colossal, cosmic, cosmopolitan,
country-wide, ecumenic, empyreal, empyrean, enormous, equinoctial,
extensive, extragalactic, gigantic, global, heaven-wide, heavenly,
heliacal, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, intercosmic,
international, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar,
king-size, large, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate,
mammoth, massive, massy, meteoric, meteoritic, monster, monstrous,
monumental, mountainous, national, nebular, nebulose, nebulous,
nondenominational, nonsectarian, outsize, overgrown, planetal,
planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, prodigious, semilunar,
sidereal, sizable, solar, spacious, sphery, star-spangled,
star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stupendous, terrestrial,
titanic, total, tremendous, universal, uranic, vast, voluminous,
weighty, world-wide, zodiacal
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