adjective
- of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- resembling a meteor in transient brilliance, suddenness of appearance, swiftness, etc.: his meteoric rise in politics.
- of or coming from the atmosphere; meteorological.
adjective
- of, formed by, or relating to meteors
- like a meteor in brilliance, speed, or transience
- rare of or relating to the weather; meteorological
adj.1812, “pertaining to meteors;” earlier “dependent on atmospheric conditions” (1789), from meteor + -ic. Figurative sense of “transiently brilliant” is from 1836.