earthbound.

1. Unable or not intended to leave the ground or the Earth.

2. Focused on ordinary material or practical matters, without imaginative or spiritual elevation.

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Words that belong together

• earthbound observer
• earthbound creature

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To an earthbound observer, the craft seemed motionless.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, description. Commonness: moderately common.