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meteoric

/ˌmiːtiˈɒɹɪk/

meteoric adjective: of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.

Adjective

meteoric (comparative more meteoric, superlative most meteoric)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
    • meteoric iron
  2. (broadly) 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.2022 December 30, Kari Paul, “US bans China-based TikTok app on all federal government devices”, in The Guardian
  3. Originating in the atmosphere.
  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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 299

meteoric meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

meteoric in Bengali

উল্কার মতো দ্রুত, উজ্জ্বল

meteoric in Malayalam

fast, rapid, lightning
കൊള്ളിമീൻപോലെയുള്ള, ഉല്ക്കപോലുള്ള, മിന്നലിനുതുല്യമായ, മിന്നൽവേഗമുള്ള, കൊള്ളിമീൻപോലെ ക്ഷണികവും ഉജ്ജ്വലവുമായ, അശനിപാതം പോലെയുള്ള

Examples of meteoric in a sentence

  • Since joining the site last month, Startin’s meteoric rise can be described only as Obamaesque.
  • His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation.
  • The city’s meteoric growth has left it with several million residents in the Yuzhong peninsula alone, and over 30 million in the municipal area!

All 10 example sentences with meteoric

Forms of meteoric

comparativemore meteoric
superlativemost meteoric

Origin of meteoric

From meteor + -ic.

Words formed from meteoric

Phrases with meteoric

Words that rhyme with meteoric

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Questions about meteoric

What does meteoric mean?
Meteoric means of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
What is meteoric in Bengali?
Meteoric in Bengali is উল্কার মতো দ্রুত, উজ্জ্বল. See Meteoric meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is meteoric?
Meteoric is an adjective.
How do you pronounce meteoric?
Meteoric is pronounced /ˌmiːtiˈɒɹɪk/.

Words near meteoric in the dictionary

  1. meteor storms
  2. meteor.
  3. meteored
  4. meteorette
  5. meteorettes
  6. meteoric
  7. meteoric iron
  8. meteoric irons
  9. meteoric water
  10. meteoric waters
  11. meteorical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meteoric (page history and authors); meteoric (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meteoric (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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