meteoric

Speech parts

1. meteoric - Adjective

2. meteoric - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.

Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

meteorological meteorologic swift metrological short meteor zodiacal blazing FAST rapid fleet brief passing temporary quick
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Antonyms

slow gradual glacial sluggish leisurely lethargic
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Related terms

meteorological meteorology meteor meteorite meteoroid meteoritic

Phrases with the word

less meteoric meteoric stone

Anagrams

octireme

Examples

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. E. E. Cummings

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. Emily Greene Balch

The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar... I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you. Romain Gary

a meteoric rise to fame Source: Internet

meteoric shower Source: Internet

meteoric impacts Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

meteor-infected meteor-page meteor-rock meteoric iron meteoric stone meteoric water