Meaning & Definition of Planetary in English

1. Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets

• "Planetary motion"

• "Planetary year"

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"

3. Having no fixed course

• "An erratic comet"

• "His life followed a wandering course"

• "A planetary vagabond"

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"