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meteoric
adjective
1 meteoric
Of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions:
— Meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena.
synonyms: meteorologic, meteorological.
Roget 173:
violent,
vehement;
warm;
acute,
sharp;
rough,
rude,
ungentle,
bluff,
boisterous,
wild;
brusque,
abrupt,
waspish;
impetuous;
rampant.
turbulent;
disorderly;
blustering,
raging
etc.
v.;
troublous†,
riotous;
tumultuary†,
tumultuous;
obstreperous,
uproarious;
extravagant;
unmitigated;
ravening,
inextinguishable,
tameless;
frenzied
etc.
(insane)
503.
desperate
etc.
(rash)
863;
infuriate,
furious,
outrageous,
frantic,
hysteric,
in hysterics.
fiery,
flaming,
scorching,
hot,
red-hot,
ebullient.
savage,
fierce,
ferocious,
fierce as a tiger.
excited
etc.
v.;
unquelled†,
unquenched,
unextinguished†,
unrepressed,
unbridled,
unruly;
headstrong,
ungovernable,
unappeasable,
immitigable,
unmitigable†;
uncontrollable,
incontrollable†;
insuppressible,
irrepressible;
orgastic,
orgasmatic,
orgasmic.
spasmodic,
convulsive,
explosive;
detonating
etc.
v.;
volcanic,
meteoric;
stormy
etc.
(wind)
349.
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Roget 420:
shining
etc.
v.;
luminous,
luminiferous†;
lucid,
lucent,
luculent†,
lucific†,
luciferous;
light,
lightsome;
bright,
vivid,
splendent†,
nitid†,
lustrous,
shiny,
beamy†,
scintillant†,
radiant,
lambent;
sheen,
sheeny;
glossy,
burnished,
glassy,
sunny,
orient,
meridian;
noonday,
tide;
cloudless,
clear;
unclouded,
unobscured†.
gairish†,
garish;
resplendent,
transplendent†;
refulgent,
effulgent;
fulgid†,
fulgent†;
relucent†,
splendid,
blazing,
in a blaze,
ablaze,
rutilant†,
meteoric,
phosphorescent;
aglow.
bright as silver;
light as day,
bright as day,
light as noonday,
bright as noonday,
bright as the sun at noonday.
actinic;
photogenic,
graphic;
heliographic;
heliophagous†.
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Dutch: meteorologisch
Polish: meteorologiczny
2 meteoric
Pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids.
Polish: meteoryczny
3 meteoric
Like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience.
Moby thesaurus: Cynthian, ablaze, aflame, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, blazing, brief, brilliant, brisk, burning, celestial, circumplanetary, cislunar, cometary, dazzling, empyreal, empyrean, ephemeral, equinoctial, evanescent, extragalactic, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, fleet, fleeting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, galactic, heavenly, heliacal, impermanent, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, meteoritic, momentary, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, overnight, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, quick, semilunar, sensational, short, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, short-termed, sidereal, solar, spectacular, speedy, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, swift, temporary, terrestrial, transient, transitory, uranic, zodiacal ... show more.
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