Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
2. (by extension) Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.
3. (geology, of water) Originating in the atmosphere.
4. Influenced by the weather.

Example Sentences

meteoric iron

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.

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.

Word Forms

• more meteoric
• most meteoric

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