| 单词 | meteoric |
| 释义 | meteoric (once / 7103 pages) adj Because meteors move through the sky so quickly, we often refer to something moving very fast as meteoric. A newly-popular singer might be said to experience a meteoric rise to the top. (The fall can be meteoric, too.) The "-ic" suffix on a word creates an adjective meaning "with the characteristics of." So meteoric means “having the characteristics of a meteor.” Both words take their origin from the Greek meteōros, meaning "high up." By the way, a shooting star is meteoric, being a meteor that is burning up as it plunges through the earth's atmosphere. WORD FAMILYmeteoric: meteorically+/meteor: meteoric, meteoroid, meteors, micrometeor/meteoroid: meteoroids/micrometeor: micrometeoric, micrometeoroid/micrometeoroid: micrometeoroids USAGE EXAMPLESIn 1996, he quit and moved to California just as the net started its meteoric ascent. BBC(Dec 14, 2016) Anecdotes abound regarding the meteoric rise of Uber and its devastation of the traditional taxi industry in cities around the world. The Guardian(Dec 06, 2016) That game sparked a meteoric ascent that culminated with the Brooklyn prodigy’s epochal world championship win in 1972. The Guardian(Dec 03, 2016) 1adj pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids meteoric shower meteoric impacts 2adj of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions meteoric (or meteorological) phenomena Syn meteorologic, meteorological 3adj like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience a meteoric rise to fame Syn fast acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly |
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