extraterrestrial

extraterrestre

Qui vient de l’espace ou d’un autre monde que la Terre.

En anglais simple : Coming from space or another world rather than from Earth.

• Scientists are searching for extraterrestrial life.
• The rock is thought to be of extraterrestrial origin.
• Could this signal have come from an extraterrestrial civilisation?

Synonymes : alien

Contraires : terrestrial

Expressions courantes : extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial origin, extraterrestrial material

extraterrestre

Être vivant venant d’une planète ou d’un lieu situé hors de la Terre.

En anglais simple : A living being from a planet or place beyond Earth.

• The film features a friendly extraterrestrial.
• Do you think extraterrestrials exist?
• The story describes humans making contact with an extraterrestrial.

Synonymes : alien, space alien

Expressions courantes : friendly extraterrestrial, intelligent extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial visitor, hostile extraterrestrial

extraterrestre

Personne si inhabituelle ou si talentueuse qu’elle semble venir d’un autre monde.

En anglais simple : Someone so unusual or talented that they seem to belong to another world.

• His friends jokingly called the brilliant scientist an extraterrestrial.
• At chess, she seemed like an extraterrestrial among ordinary players.
• People treated the eccentric inventor as an extraterrestrial.

Expressions courantes : an extraterrestrial, absolute extraterrestrial, call someone an extraterrestrial