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What is the adjective for meteoric?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs meteor and meteorize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

meteoric
  1. Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
  2. Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.
  3. (geology) Of water: originating in the atmosphere.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Is it a challenge to stay level-headed given you've had a meteoric rise in terms of your acting career?”
      “His short and meteoric career is typical of the experiences of an editor in any stagnant town.”
      “The nation, who had never known defeat in her meteoric rise to power, gained an exaggerated impression of her own strength.”
meteorologic
  1. Relating to meteorology; meteorological.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The meteorologic research station provided valuable data for studying climate change patterns.”
      “To forecast river or lake flood levels, two primary types of data are required: hydrologic and meteorologic.”
      “In his opinion, there was no meteorologic condition in this case that could constitute force majeure.”
meteoritical
  1. meteoritic; relating to meteorites
  2. Examples:
    1. “The research is featured in 20 papers published this week in an issue of the Meteoritical Society's journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.”
      “That's not an impossible scenario, says Yuri Amelin of ANU, who will report on the dating work in July at the Meteoritical Society meeting in Edmonton, Canada.”
meteoroidal
  1. (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteoroids. [from 19th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was interpreted as a meteoroidal bolide followed by probable meteorite fall.”
      “The moon, after all, had acted as a gravitational trap for meteoroidal material accumulated from space over many eons.”
      “Among the different forms of meteoroidal disintegration in the atmosphere described above, the quasi-continuous fragmentation is of greatest interest.”
meteorographic
  1. Of or pertaining to meteorography.
meteorological
  1. Of or pertaining to meteorology.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Such meteorological events could help explain the sudden increase in malformed frogs over such a large and diverse region.”
      “Hourly meteorological data were measured at an automated weather station 300 m from the field site.”
      “The meteorological office and weathermen may or may not agree, but summers have become warmer over the past three to four decades.”
meteorous
  1. (archaic) Of the nature or appearance of a meteor.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The angels come towards the outcasts Gliding meteorous, as evening mist Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel Homeward returning.”
      “They give a reality to the circumjacent picture which such a vanishing meteorous appearance can ill spare.”
meteoritic
  1. (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteorites
  2. Examples:
    1. “In this region they would have been safe from late meteoritic and cometary impacts after the accretion of the Earth.”
      “It will be the first spacecraft to orbit a comet's nucleus, allowing its instruments to follow the development of the active areas that eject the meteoritic dust into space.”
      “Whether international prices slump or go on a meteoritic rise they remain unruffled, as their lifestyle is already being protected by state subsidies.”
meteorical
  1. Dated form of meteoric.
meteored
  1. simple past tense and past participle of meteor
meteoring
  1. present participle of meteor
meteorized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of meteorize
meteorizing
  1. present participle of meteorize
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