meteoric
- adjective
- /mɪˈtɪərɪk/
- Sam's meteoric success continued in 2015 when he scooped two BRITs plus a Billboard Music Award for top male artist.
- meteoric rise
- meteoric career
And so the initial progress tends to be meteoric, but after that tends to be incremental.
- And so the initial progress tends to be meteoric, but after that tends to be incremental.
- And it it's, there's just a lot of psychological fallout that I think happens when you have that sort of meteoric rise.
- Third reason is he has been there at the beginning and throughout the meteoric rise of the video game live streaming community in some mainstream circles.
- But many people have been on Love Island and nobody ever has had the meteoric rise in their brand, their career, their profile like Molly has.
- So talk to me about like the, the other side of that, that, that meteoric rise.
- And this coincided with this meteoric rise with Casey and Cali means who none of us had seen.
Examples
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Little: Well, I think it would be fair to describe it as a meteoric rise, yes.
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His meteoric rise to stardom surprised everyone in the industry.
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Is it possible to have meteoric success and enjoy it, be happy, be healthy in your mind?
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Your rise has been meteoric, yet you have no formal training.
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Driven by demons that seemed more personal than political, his rise was meteoric.
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Prince Philip's meteoric rise in the Royal Navy continued when he was appointed commander in 1952.
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Third reason is he has been there at the beginning and throughout the meteoric rise of the video game live streaming community in some mainstream circles.
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Her acceptance in 1882 marked the beginning of her meteoric career as a salon painter.
Fiction book (1993) -
The episode is a strange twist in D'Souza's otherwise meteoric rise in the evangelical world.
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Welby's appointment as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury caps a meteoric ascent through the Church.
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Antonyms
How Rapid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember meteoric is to think of a meteor or 'shooting star' that flashes very brightly and then is gone, so a 'meteoric' rise or success is very fast and brilliant but often short-lived.