Contextualizebeta

cosmic

adj
/ˈkɒz.mɪk/UK/ˈkɑz.mɪk/US/ˈkɔz.mɪk/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κοσμικός (kosmikós)

  1. borrowed from κοσμικός

Definitions

  1. Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.

  2. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe

    Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.

    • cosmic speed
    • The human understanding, for example—the faculty which Mr. Spencer has turned so skillfully round upon its own antecedents—is itself a result of the play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time.

  3. Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.

    • Humpty Dumpty is the cosmic egg, the wall, the edge between transcendence and existence. As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.
    • “It's called transdimentional awareness,” Jay contributed to the conversation, “and it's like totally cosmic man.”
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Rising or setting with the sun

      Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.

The neighborhood

Derived

acosmic, anthropocosmic, astrocosmic, biocosmic, cosmically, cosmic background, cosmic background radiation, cosmic bowling, cosmic calendar, cosmic censorship, cosmic censorship hypothesis, cosmic disco, cosmic dust, cosmic egg, cosmic event horizon, cosmic gravitational wave background, cosmic gravitational-wave background, cosmic infrared background, cosmic irony, cosmicism, cosmicist, cosmicity, cosmicize, cosmic joker, cosmic latte, cosmic light horizon, cosmic microwave background, cosmic neutrino background, cosmic radiation, cosmic ray, cosmic singularity, cosmic string, cosmic teapot, cosmic time, cosmic wall, cosmic web, cosmic year, first cosmic velocity, geocosmic, hypercosmic · +13 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cosmic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA