From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Planetary \Plan"et*a*ry\, adjective [Cf. L. planetarius an astrologer, F. plan['e]taire planetary. See {Planet}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
2. Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
3. (Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet. ''Skilled in the planetary hours.'' --Drayton.
4. Caused by planets. ''A planetary plague.'' --Shak.
5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. ''Erratical and planetary life.'' --Fuller.
{Planetary days}, the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day. --Hutton.
{Planetary nebula}, a nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year" [syn: {planetal}]
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball" [syn: {terrestrial}]
3: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: {erratic}, {wandering}]
4: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance" [syn: {global}, {world(a)}, {worldwide}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "planetary": Antaean, Cynthian, aberrant, aberrative, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, catholic, celestial, circuitous, circumplanetary, cislunar, colossal, cosmic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, cyclopean, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, ecumenic, ecumenical, elephantine, empyreal, empyrean, enormous, equinoctial, errant, erratic, excursive, extragalactic, galactic, gigantic, global, heaven-wide, heavenly, heliacal, immense, indirect, intercosmic, international, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, jumbo, labyrinthine, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, mazy, meandering, meteoric, meteoritic, monumental, national, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, nondenominational, nonsectarian, out-of-the-way, planetal, planetarian, planetesimal, rambling, roving, semilunar, serpentine, shifting, sidereal, snaky, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stray, swerving, terrestrial, total, turning, twisting, undirected, universal, uranic, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, world-wide, worldwide, zigzag, zodiacal
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