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Synonyms for extraterrestrial
ˌɛk strə təˈrɛs tri əlex·trater·res·tri·al

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Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 9 votes

  1. extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alienadjective

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

    Synonyms:
    unknown, stranger, alien, noncitizen, outlander, extraterrestrial being, foreigner

  2. extraterrestrialadjective

    originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere

    "is there extraterrestrial life?"

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  1. List of paraphrases for "extraterrestrial":

    alien

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1702unknown
#5966alien
#9366stranger
#27320foreigner
#38645extraterrestrial
#57491outlander
#156380noncitizen

How to use extraterrestrial in a sentence?

  1. Gustavo Cruz:

    If extraterrestrial life looks at us, they will not find a [single] technosignature.

  2. Baptiste Journaux:

    These are the only planetary bodies, other than Earth, where liquid water is stable at geological timescales, which is crucial for the emergence and development of life, they are, in my opinion, the best place in our solar system to discover extraterrestrial life, so we need to study their exotic oceans and interiors to better understand how they formed, evolved and can retain liquid water in cold regions of the solar system, so far away from the sun.

  3. Yasuhiro Oba:

    I can not say the presence of such ingredients directly leads to the emergence/presence of extraterrestrial life, but at least their components such as amino acids and nucleobases may be present everywhere in space.

  4. Christopher Conselice:

    Our new research suggests that searches for extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations not only reveals the existence of how life forms, but also gives us clues for how long our own civilization will last, if we find that intelligent life is common then this would reveal that our civilization could exist for much longer than a few hundred years, alternatively if we find that there are no active civilizations in our Galaxy it is a bad sign for our own long-term existence. By searching for extraterrestrial intelligent life — even if we find nothing — we are discovering our own future and fate.

  5. Frans Snik:

    Maybe our first detection of extraterrestrial life will be in our backyard.


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