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extraterrestrial Definition

extra·ter·res·tri·al (-tə restrē əl)

adjective

existing, taking place, or coming from outside the limits of the earth

noun

an extraterrestrial being, as in science fiction

extraterrestrial Usage Examples

Converse of subject

  • visit: In the early stages of the UFO controversy very few people believed that we were being visited by extraterrestrials.

Adjective modifier

  • benevolent: Hence benevolent extraterrestrials are expected to avoid this abrupt course of action.

Modifies a noun

  • visitation: What is it about extraterrestrial visitation that implies the availability of physical proof?
  • spaceship: The belief that physical proof of extraterrestrial spaceships is kept secret is hopelessly irrational.
  • spacecraft: The null hypothesis is that not one of the available UFO reports represents a genuine sighting of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
  • civilization: It has also been suggested that extraterrestrial civilizations simply haven't had enough time to find us yet.
  • hypothesis: Trying to fit this case into the extraterrestrial hypothesis presents a series of problems.
  • intelligence: Once extraterrestrial intelligences have been found, contact with them is less of a hurdle.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: MULDER: Do we know for sure that those cells are not extraterrestrial?

Noun used with modifier

  • flesh-and-blood: On the contrary, I began to realize that the ancient Egyptian gods were not flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials at all.

Preposition: in

  • origin: And what's causing it may be extraterrestrial in origin.