earthbound
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7.1
- adjective
- /ˈɜrθˌbaʊnd/
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mundano
- Up to that point, most of our company's jobs had involved houses or restaurants and were very earthbound.
- earthbound and prosaic
- more earthbound
I'm going to sell stock as fast as I can, and then I'm going to prop up my old earthbound companies.
- I'm going to sell stock as fast as I can, and then I'm going to prop up my old earthbound companies.
Examples
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She'd never dealt with the out-and-out supernatural, and she'd probably end up attaching some prosaic, earthbound solution to it.
Fiction book (1996) -
And so, in this crucial hour in the destiny of our country... they will not hesitate to break the chains of habit... and free themselves from the earthbound past.
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I'm looking for something a little more earthbound.
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Gentlemen, I'm afraid your thinking is a little too earthbound.
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Eve, for someone who owns a New Age store, you are alarmingly earthbound.
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I'm going to sell stock as fast as I can, and then I'm going to prop up my old earthbound companies.
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Unfortunately, Mobilio is accurate about today's earthbound fictions.
Fiction book (2000) -
Dancing on sidewalks and in the streets, the earthbound daredevil's style is grounded and youthfully sexual.
Academic text (2012) -
The Family of Man gives us an earthbound, workaday world, so that even fishermen are depicted not as voyagers upon the high seas, but as peasants afloat, seemingly never far from the littoral spaces of the shore.
Academic text (2002) -
After reading countless fantasy novels, I found myself feeling too earthbound and in need of some adventure.
Synonyms
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6.7
Not interesting or exciting
23
6.2
Not showing new ideas or creative thinking
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4.0
Not having new or interesting ideas
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4.2
Does not show creativity or new ideas
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
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7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
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8.5
Plain and not interesting with no new ideas
Not interesting and showing little imagination
Common and familiar, not foreign or unusual
Antonyms
Compounds
How Imaginative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Earthbound comes from earth ('ground') and bound ('tied' down). So, when we describe a style or idea as earthbound, we mean it is ordinary and not very imaginative.