cosmic

See also: còsmic

English

Etymology

cosmos + -ic

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kŏz'mĭk, IPA(key): /ˈkɒz.mɪk/
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Adjective

cosmic (comparative more cosmic, superlative most cosmic)

  1. Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
  2. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.
    cosmic speed
    • 1874 October, John Tyndall, “Inaugural Address before the British Association”, in Popular Science, page 683:
      The human understanding, for example—the faculty which Mr. Spencer has turned so skillfully round upon its own antecedents—is itself a result of the play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time.
  3. Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:
      Humpty Dumpty is the cosmic egg, the wall, the edge between transcendence and existence. As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.
    • 1999, John W. Milor, Apparition, page 272:
      “It's called transdimentional awareness,” Jay contributed to the conversation, “and it's like totally cosmic man.”
  4. (astronomy, dated) Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.

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Friulian

Adjective

cosmic

  1. cosmic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cosmique.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkos.mik/

Adjective

cósmic m or n (feminine singular cosmică, masculine plural cosmici, feminine and neuter plural cosmice)

  1. cosmic

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