meteoric

From meteor +‎ -ic.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmiːtiˈɒɹɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪk

meteoric (comparative more meteoric, superlative most meteoric)

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

   meteoric iron

2. (by extension) Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.

   Her meteoric rise to power was followed by a slow, lackluster career at the top.

   • 2022 December 30, Kari Paul, “US bans China-based TikTok app on all federal government devices”, in The Guardian‎:

     With the meteoric rise has come broad concerns about the app’s impact on its relatively young users.

3. (geology, of water) Originating in the atmosphere.
4. Influenced by the weather.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVI, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 299:

     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.

   • 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter XIII, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC:

     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.

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Borrowed from French météorique. By surface analysis, meteor +‎ -ic.

meteoric m or n (feminine singular meteorică, masculine plural meteorici, feminine and neuter plural meteorice)

1. meteoric