Definition of "meteoric"

meteoric

/ˌmiːtiˈɒɹɪk/

adjective
comparative more meteoric, superlative most meteoric
1. Of, pertaining to, or originating from a meteor.
2. (by extension) Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.
  Quotations
  With the meteoric rise has come broad concerns about the app’s impact on its relatively young users.
  2022 December 30, Kari Paul, “US bans China-based TikTok app on all federal government devices”, in The Guardian‎
3. (geology, of water) Originating in the atmosphere.
4. Influenced by the weather.
  Quotations
  On the far side was reflected a single red and meteoric cloud, which had treasured one last crimson ray from the sunset, or perhaps nursed within it the fiery leaven.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 299
  It was summer at the south pole. The ice cap was melting and those meteoric phenomena, clouds, unknown upon the greater part of Barsoom, were shutting out the light of heaven from this portion of the planet.
  1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co.; republished as chapter XIII, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September,