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martian🔊

Of or relating to the planet Mars, or (science fiction) its imagined inhabitants.

📑 Synonyms: Arean areo-

(astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars; aggressive, bellicose.

📑 Synonyms: Martial

(obsolete) Pertaining to battle or war; martial, military.

Pertaining to the Roman god Mars, the god of war.

(astrology) A person under the astrological influence of the planet Mars.

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mars.

💬 Quotations
Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of their appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, [...]

(rare, specifically) A male Martian.

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