meteoric

English

From meteor +‎ -ic.

meteoric (comparative more meteoric, superlative most meteoric)

Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
meteoric iron
(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^[1]:
  With the meteoric rise has come broad concerns about the app’s impact on its relatively young users.
(geology, of water) Originating in the atmosphere.
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.

pertaining to a meteor

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

		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	meteoric	meteorică	meteorici	meteorice
nominative- accusative	definite	meteoricul	meteorica	meteoricii	meteoricele
genitive- dative	indefinite	meteoric	meteorice	meteorici	meteorice
genitive- dative	definite	meteoricului	meteoricei	meteoricilor	meteoricelor