meteoric

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.

   • meteoric iron
2. 2

   Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.

   • Her meteoric rise to power was followed by a slow, lackluster career at the top.
   • With the meteoric rise has come broad concerns about the app’s impact on its relatively young users.
3. 3

   Originating in the atmosphere.

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   1. 4

      Influenced by the weather.

      • a meteoric flower
      • On the far side was reflected a single red and meteoric cloud, which had treasured one last crimson ray from the sunset, or perhaps nursed within it the fiery leaven.
      • It was summer at the south pole. The ice cap was melting and those meteoric phenomena, clouds, unknown upon the greater part of Barsoom, were shutting out the light of heaven from this portion of the planet.

The neighborhood

• neighbormeteor
• neighbormeteorite
• neighbormeteoritic
• neighbormeteoritics
• neighbormeteoroid
• neighbormeteoroidal
• neighbormeteorological
• neighbormeteorology