Usually means: Rapid and brilliant rise, descent.
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  1. meteoric: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. meteoric: Merriam-Webster
  3. meteoric: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. meteoric: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. meteoric: Collins English Dictionary
  6. meteoric: Vocabulary.com
  7. Meteoric, meteoric: Wordnik
  8. meteoric: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. meteoric: Wiktionary
  10. meteoric: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. meteoric: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. meteoric: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Meteoric, meteoric: Dictionary.com
  14. meteoric: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Meteoric: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Meteoric: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. meteoric: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. meteoric: Rhymezone
  19. meteoric: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. meteoric: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. meteoric: FreeDictionary.org
  22. meteoric: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. meteoric: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. meteoric: Legal dictionary

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  1. meteoric: Encyclopedia

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  1. meteoric: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (meteoric)

▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.
▸ adjective:  (geology, of water) Originating in the atmosphere.
▸ adjective:  Influenced by the weather.

Similar:
meteorological, fast, meteorical, meteoritic, meteoristic, meteoroidal, meteorolitic, meteorographic, meteorous, meteoroscopic, more...

Opposite:
gradual, slow, leisurely

Phrases:
meteoric water, meteoric waters, meteoric iron, meteoric stones, meteoric stone, more...

Adjectives:
most, less, recent, connate, complex

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     bronze,     copper,     iron, more...



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Similar:
meteorological, fast, meteorical, meteoritic, meteoristic, meteoroidal, meteorolitic, meteorographic, meteorous, meteoroscopic, more...

Opposite:
gradual, slow, leisurely

Phrases:
meteoric water, meteoric waters, meteoric iron, meteoric stones, meteoric stone, meteoric showers, meteoric irons, meteoric paper, Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger, Global meteoric water line, meteoric rise, more...

Adjectives:
most, less, recent, connate, complex

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     bronze,     copper,     iron, more...



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