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Definition of Earthbound
1. Adjective. Confined to the earth.
2. Adjective. Lacking wit or imagination. "A pedestrian movie plot"
Similar to: Uninteresting
Derivative terms: Prosaicness, Prose, Prosiness
Definition of Earthbound
1. Adjective. confined to the Earth ¹
2. Adjective. unimaginative or mundane ¹
3. Adjective. heading towards Earth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earthbound
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthbound
Literary usage of Earthbound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Frontiers of the After Life by Edward Caleb Randall (1922)
"earthbound THERE were few nights during the years of scientific investigation
that I did not talk with earthbound spirit people, usually with several, ..."
2. The Descending Light: A Series of Lessons from Higher Intelligences on the by Josephine McHugh Brace (1922)
"earthbound SPIRITS. earthbound spirits are souls close to the earth because of
limited thoughts having controlled their lives—limited entirely to the earth ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1880)
"The readers of' Fraser' will remember Mrs. Oliphant's singularly beautiful story
of ' earthbound,' which appeared in the number for January last. ..."
4. The Novel of Tomorrow and the Scope of Fiction: And the Scope of Fiction by Mary Hunter Austin, James Branch Cabell, Floyd Dell, Waldo David Frank, Zona Gale, Joseph Hergesheimer (1922)
"Unless the novelist wishes to rest under the imputation of romanticizing, let
him write about commonplace people, dull inarticulate earthbound people, ..."
5. The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) by Yung Sik Kim (2000)
"16 Also, whereas in general earthbound animals are yin and live in grasses (associated
with yin) and birds are yang and live in trees (yang), ..."
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