Clues for the word "METEORIC"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 34 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 17, 2025.
Definition of meteoric
- a. - Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.
- a. - Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.
- a. - Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame.
Referring Clues
- Like a swift and spectacular success
- Momentarily dazzling
- Fast, as a rise
- Sudden, swift and brilliant
- Transiently brilliant
- Markedly rapid
- Sudden and swift
- Swiftly brilliant
- Like a transient triumph
- Very rapid
- Brilliant but brief
- Like overnight successes
- Rapid, as a rise to fame
- Skyrocketing
- Remarkably rapid
- Swift
- Brilliant
- Type of rise
- Swift - spectacular
- Very fast time Coe runs gets beaten
- Brilliant, as a shooting star
- Spectacular ego, heart lost in the system
- Dazzlingly quick, like a shooting star
- Swift and spectacular
- Taking drug, turns to crime in spectacular fashion
- Came across man touring Ohio for shooting
- Cite more works of spectacular dimensions
- High-speed (ascent in metaphor, descent in reality?)
- Swift and sudden
- Very quick in giving me the rice to cook
- Like a shooting star
- Like a phenom's rise to stardom
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 09, 2022
- LA Times - November 15, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 03, 2022
- Guardian Quiptic - June 26, 2017
- New York Times - January 21, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 02, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - August 10, 2016
- Universal - May 02, 2016
- LA Times - April 23, 2016
- Family Time - January 10, 2016
- Netword - October 22, 2015
- Guardian Quick - August 26, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - December 06, 2011
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 02, 2011
- Universal - July 28, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - August 25, 2009
- Washington Post - September 19, 2008
- Guardian Prize - May 17, 2008
- LA Times Sunday - January 20, 2008
- LA Times Sunday - November 18, 2007
- New York Times - September 02, 2007
- New York Times - February 28, 2007
- Guardian Quick - October 17, 2006
- Washington Post - March 16, 2006
- Guardian Quick - April 05, 2005
- And in 4 more crossword puzzles...