extraterrestrial

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A being originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; an alien.
    — Smith returns in Men In Black 3 as a veteran agent of a secret organization dedicated to policing the earth’s many extraterrestrials.
形容词 adj.
  1. Originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment.
    — Residents of the city of Voronezh insisted today that lanky, three-eyed extraterrestrial creatures had indeed landed in a local park and gone for a stroll and that a seemingly fantastic report about the event carried Monday by the official press agency Tass was absolutely true.

词形变化

more extraterrestrial comparative most extraterrestrial superlative extra-terrestrial alternative extraterrestrials plural extra-terrestrial alternative

词汇关系

反义词
Earthling Terran terrestrial

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English terrestrial
English extraterrestrial
From extra- + terrestrial.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English terrestrial
English extraterrestrial
From extra- + terrestrial.
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