translunary
- adjective
- /trænˈslʌnəri/
- Archaic
- The translunary beauty of the stars captivated everyone.
Examples
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Such beauty, she thought, could only exist in a translunary realm.
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The poet wrote about a translunary world untouched by human sorrow.
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He longed for adventures in translunary regions beyond mortal reach.
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Her ideas were so translunary that no one could understand them.
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The poet wrote about a translunary world untouched by human sorrow.
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Such beauty, she thought, could only exist in a translunary realm.
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He longed for adventures in translunary regions beyond mortal reach.
Synonyms
34
8.9
Relating to the stars or to a world beyond the body that is not physical
12
9.6
Beyond the natural world and ordinary experience
2
9.9
About things that exist in more than one world or universe
1
9.8
Light and delicate with a feeling of something not physical
1
9.9
Not of this world and seeming like a dream
Beyond the moon and ordinary life, like something from another world
Things that exist beyond the moon and seem strange
Beyond the physical world and normal human experience
A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling
Antonyms
How Otherworldly
- Literature
23
8.8
- Literature
30
7.8
- Archaic
2
8.2
73
4.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Translunary comes from the parts trans- ('across' or 'beyond') and lunar ('moon'), so it literally means 'beyond the moon'. That's why translunary describes things that feel unworldly or like they come from another, moonlit world.