meteoric

comparative more meteoric · superlative most meteoric

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

   meteoric iron

2. broadlyLike a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.

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

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

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

3. geographyOriginating in the atmosphere.
4. Influenced by the weather.

   a meteoric flower

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   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.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 299

   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.

   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., September 1918, →OCLC