Meteoric

Word METEORIC
Character 8
Hyphenation me te or ic
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Definitions and meanings of "Meteoric"

What do we mean by meteoric?

Of, relating to, or formed by a meteoroid. adjective

Of or relating to the earth's atmosphere. adjective

Similar to a meteor in speed, brilliance, or brevity. adjective

Of the upper air; ethereal; empyreal.

Pertaining to or of the nature of a meteor; consisting of meteors: as, meteoric stones; meteoric showers.

Flashing like a meteor; transiently or irregularly brilliant.

Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric adjective

Influenced by the weather. adjective

Flashing; transient and brilliant, like a meteor{3}. adjective

See Meteorite. adjective

A substance of confervoid origin found floating in the air, and resembling bits of coarse paper; -- so called because formerly supposed to fall from meteors. adjective

Periodical exhibitions of shooting stars, occuring about the 9th or 10th of August and 13th of November, more rarely in April and December, and also at some other periods. adjective

Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor. adjective

Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness. adjective

Of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions adjective

Like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience adjective

Pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids adjective

Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.

Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.

Of water: originating in the atmosphere.

Influenced by the weather.

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The word "meteoric" in example sentences

The men who now and then flash across our intellectual heavens, drawing all eyes for the moment, these I call meteoric men. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

It wasn't long ago that Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's rise to the top of the Republican field of presidential candidates was called "meteoric." ❋ Unknown (2011)

A politician's rapid rise to power is often called meteoric. ❋ By THOMAS FULLER (2011)

His rise in the Senate was remarkable in its speed and depth, and would likely be the subject of closer attention had his fellow Senator, Barack Obama, not coined the meteoric rise only two years before. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His rise to front-runner is described as meteoric, his speeches as mesmerizing, his crowds as enraptured, his charisma as boundless. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pukes, but is now a vast expanse of bare rock, from which every particle of soil and everything movable, including people, animals and vegetation, have been lifted by terrific cyclones and scattered afar, falling in other lands and at sea in the form of what was called meteoric dust! ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

It was only a small black mass of what is now called meteoric iron, which sometimes comes down with meteorites from the sky, but it was shaped like a shield, and the people thought it an image of the warlike shielded Goddess, fallen from Heaven. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

When my fears and astonishment had in some degree subsided, I had little difficulty in supposing it to be some mighty volcanic fragment ejected from that world to which I was so rapidly approaching, and, in all probability, one of that singular class of substances occasionally picked up on the earth, and termed meteoric stones for want of a better appellation. ❋ Unknown (1840)

The greater part of them were in a state of evident eruption, and gave me fearfully to understand their fury and their power by the repeated thunders of the miscalled meteoric stones which now rushed upwards by the balloon with a frequency more and more appalling. ❋ Unknown (1840)

The greater part of them were in a state of evident eruption, and gave me fearfully to understand their fury and their power, by the repeated thunders of the miscalled meteoric stones, which now rushed upward by the balloon with a frequency more and more appalling. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)

The move higher is certainly not meteoric, which is what we're seeing for core European currencies so far this morning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At just 18 years old, and with a lead role in a massive upcoming Tim Burton film, we expect Mia Wasikowska to continue what can only be termed her meteoric rise to stardom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jason Wu's rise in the fashion industry can only be described as meteoric, getting his start in creating elaborate outfits for collectible dolls and launching his fashion line only three years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That would be what you could call a meteoric rise! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I recall the meteoric rise following their 2004 IPO, as the stock was a 7-bagger just three years later. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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