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Plutonian vs Nether - What's the difference?

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Plutonian is a related term of nether.


As adjectives the difference between plutonian and nether

is that plutonian is of or relating to pluto, roman god of the underworld, or the underworld itself while nether is lower; under.

As nouns the difference between plutonian and nether

is that plutonian is (science fiction) an inhabitant of the dwarf planet pluto while nether is oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

As an adverb nether is

down; downward.

As a verb nether is

to bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

plutonian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to Pluto, Roman god of the underworld, or the underworld itself
  • :''Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" by Edgar Allan Poe (1854)
  • Of, or relating to Pluto (the dwarf planet)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (science fiction) An inhabitant of the dwarf planet Pluto.
  • nether

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nether, nethere, nithere, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

  • Lower; under.
  • The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
  • Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
  • The nether regions.
  • * 1873 , Mark Twain, The Gilded Age , page187:
  • When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
    Synonyms
    * (lower) bottom, lower * (sense, beneath the Earth's surface) subsurface, subterranean
    Derived terms
    * netherdom * nether region * Netherlands * nethermore * nethermost * netherness * netherty * netherward * netherworld

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Down; downward.
  • Low; low down.
  • Etymology 2

    Alteration of earlier nither, from (etyl) nitheren, from (etyl) . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  • To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  • To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  • To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  • To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  • (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
  • Anagrams

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