planetbound

English

Etymology

planet +‎ -bound

Adjective

planetbound (not comparable)

1. Unable to leave the planet one is on.
   • 1953 July, George O. Smith, Space Science Fiction, page 94:

     I'll bet a hat that Isaac Asimov could knock us all for a row of uranium cans if he wrote about something a leetle more familiar to us poor planet-bound humans. This massive sweep of millions of light years and thousands of centuries away was hot stuff fifteen years ago. Isaac, please come home, all is forgiven.