Adjective: extraterrestrial
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more extraterrestrial |
| Superlative | most extraterrestrial |
Sample Sentences
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Residents of the city of Voronezh insisted today that lanky, three-eyed extraterrestrial creatures had indeed landed in a local park and gone for a stroll and that a seemingly fantastic report about the event carried Monday by the official press agency Tass was absolutely true. [1989 October 11, Esther B. Fein, “U.F.O. Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2012, Section A, page 6:]
Adjectives inflected like extraterrestrial
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
5. Proto-Indo-European *-teros
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
7. Proto-Italic *eksteros
8. Latin exter
9. Latin extrā
10. English extra-
11. English terrestrial
12. English extraterrestrial
13. From extra- + terrestrial.
Verbs referencing "extraterrestrial"
German Adjectives
extraterrestrisch.