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[ US /ˈɝθˌbaʊnd/ ]
[ UK /ˈɜːθba‍ʊnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking wit or imagination
    a pedestrian movie plot
  2. confined to the earth

How To Use earthbound In A Sentence

  • Expecting to have to moderate their pace so as not to overstride their diminutive hosts, the travelers found themselves having to hurry to keep up, so swift were the Swick's feathered earthbound mounts. Carnivores of Light and Darkness
  • As to the conversation carried on between the clergyman and the earthbound spirit, the same authoress has described a similar one when recording the adventures of Lord and Lady Wynford in Glamis Castle (Ghosts I Have Seen, p. 175). The Land of Mist
  • The first earthbound applications of this electronic wizardry will be airport scanners that scrutinize passengers' bags.
  • The space shuttle remained earthbound because of a technical fault.
  • Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
  • When that happened, all the gods (who, it turns out, really did exist in ethereal forms, science be damned) became earthbound as humans. Book Review: Exponential Apocalypse | Fandomania
  • Beholders prefer inaccessible locations that earthbound foes can reach only with difficulty.
  • For all its white heat, in other words, the sur-reality of Friday Night left me alone in the earthbound darkness, coolly and contractively contemplating the state of my own connubial bond.
  • I have to live my life not just for myself, but for Sage, Zara and Bliss. and take comfort in the realization that half of our earthbound life is spent in dreams, and that is where I am free to run and play ~with two little girls and a boy~ That ~are~ always with me. shhh, this is my dream. this is me, being set free~ old starlight - new starbright Wendchymes Diary Entry
  • Only now are we entering a new stage, ‘trans-gravity’, when the complex systems developed by earthbound architects and the ambitions of government agencies and scientists will all collide in a cloud of dazzling futurism.
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