Word Meanings - PLANETULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little planet. Conybeare.

Related words: (words related to PLANETULE)

• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• PLANETARIUM
  An orrery. See Orrery.
• PLANETOID
  A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
• PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
  Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
• PLANETARY
  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."
• PLANET-STRICKEN; PLANET-STRUCK
  Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• INTERPLANETARY
  Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.