planetless

Lacking orbiting bodies

Planetless describes a star or stellar system without any planets orbiting it.

The term appears in astronomy and science fiction: a planetless sun drifting through the galaxy.

It can also describe something more abstractly unmoored or cosmically alone.

adrift

rogue

Dishonest or uncontrolled agent

free-floating · ejected · untethered · vagabond · castaway · roamer · itinerant · wayfarer · stray · displaced

cosmic

interstellar

Between celestial bodies

dark matter · astrophysics · cosmology · space-time · exoplanetary · substellar · brown dwarf · accretion · circumstellar · pulsar

solitary

isolation

Complete separation from others

alone · loneliness · barren · silent · cold · remote · detached · unaccompanied · singular · stark

unbound

uncaptured

Not seized or taken

unrestricted · unconfined · unattached · detached · escaped · released · free-floating · independent · untethered · autonomous

Opposites
planetary presence

planetlessplanetary

Of or relating to worlds

solar system · planetary system · orbited · crowded · inhabited

Family

planet, planets, planetary, planetarium, exoplanet, interplanetary, exoplanets, planetariums, planetlike

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