Meteoric
adjective
Increasing or developing very fast.
His career had a meteoric rise.
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- meteoric rise
- meteoric growth
adjective
Relating to meteors or meteorites.
Last night, we saw a majestic meteoric shower.
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- meteoric shower
- meteoric iron
adjective
Increasing or developing very fast.
His career had a meteoric rise.
Often appears as...
- meteoric rise
- meteoric growth
adjective
Relating to meteors or meteorites.
Last night, we saw a majestic meteoric shower.
Often appears as...
- meteoric shower
- meteoric iron
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Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Impact
Used to describe something accelerating very quickly and often unexpectedly, indicating surprise or astonishment.
Her app gained meteoric popularity overnight.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Long-Term
Implies a rapid change that might not last for a long time, hinting at a potential quick decline after the rise.
Despite the meteoric success, the company struggled the following year.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity Connotation
Carries a connotation of intensity and powerful action, often associated with exciting or dramatic developments.
The band's meteoric rise to fame was fueled by their viral hit song.
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as well as pieces focusing on contemporary race relations. In less than a decade, Basquiat made thousands of paintings and drawings- along with sculpture, fragments of poetry and music. His output accelerated alongside his meteoric rise to fame, but his life and work were cut tragically short
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Is war between China and...
you will be able to have a better understanding of what's going on and even to explain it to your friends. So as we saw with this flipping the pyramid of poverty, China has actually soared. It's meteoric.
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The chaotic brilliance...
as well as pieces focusing on contemporary race relations. In less than a decade, Basquiat made thousands of paintings and drawings- along with sculpture, fragments of poetry and music. His output accelerated alongside his meteoric rise to fame, but his life and work were cut tragically short
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Is war between China and...
you will be able to have a better understanding of what's going on and even to explain it to your friends. So as we saw with this flipping the pyramid of poverty, China has actually soared. It's meteoric.
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Rachel Simmons
American Author
The meteoric rise of the 'wellness' industry online has launched an entire industry of fitness celebrities on social media. Millions of followers embrace their regimens for diet and exercise, but increasingly, the drive for 'wellness' and 'clean eating' has become stealthy cover for more dieting and deprivation.
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Song Joong-ki
South Korean Actor
It is inevitable that popularity will fade. That's why I must always be prepared. I don't want a meteoric rise in popularity. I want to be an actor who can quickly get back on my feet after a fall. If I want to have a long-term career in acting, I must be careful about the choices I make.
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Sir Mix-a-Lot
American Musician
Look at Macklemore! Perfect comparison, we're two artists from the same city who both had meteoric rises at different periods. I probably sold more albums, because in that era you couldn't steal them; you had to go to a record store to buy them. But Macklemore had more power.
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Robert Dallek
American Historian
McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.
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Synyster Gates
American Musician
Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations.
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Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish Novelist
I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I've ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it.
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Bill Bailey
English Comedian
Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
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Shraddha Srinath
Indian Actress
I know it wasn't like a meteoric rise, it was not overnight success. Nobody watched my movie, fell in love and said 'I'm her biggest fan.' People took time to warm up to me.
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Emily Greene Balch
American Educator
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
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Rolf Harris
Australian Entertainer
George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.
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Rachel Simmons
American Author
The meteoric rise of the 'wellness' industry online has launched an entire industry of fitness celebrities on social media. Millions of followers embrace their regimens for diet and exercise, but increasingly, the drive for 'wellness' and 'clean eating' has become stealthy cover for more dieting and deprivation.
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Song Joong-ki
South Korean Actor
It is inevitable that popularity will fade. That's why I must always be prepared. I don't want a meteoric rise in popularity. I want to be an actor who can quickly get back on my feet after a fall. If I want to have a long-term career in acting, I must be careful about the choices I make.
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Sir Mix-a-Lot
American Musician
Look at Macklemore! Perfect comparison, we're two artists from the same city who both had meteoric rises at different periods. I probably sold more albums, because in that era you couldn't steal them; you had to go to a record store to buy them. But Macklemore had more power.
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Robert Dallek
American Historian
McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.
Quote examples
Synyster Gates
American Musician
Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations.
Quote examples
Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish Novelist
I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I've ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it.
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Bill Bailey
English Comedian
Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
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Shraddha Srinath
Indian Actress
I know it wasn't like a meteoric rise, it was not overnight success. Nobody watched my movie, fell in love and said 'I'm her biggest fan.' People took time to warm up to me.
Quote examples
Emily Greene Balch
American Educator
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
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Rolf Harris
Australian Entertainer
George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.
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