cosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏz'mĭk
ipa: /ˈkɒz.mɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɑz.mɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɔz.mɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɒz.mək/
Forms: form: more cosmic
form: most cosmic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοσμικός (kosmikós)
Senses: glosses: Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
examples: text: cosmic speed
text: 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.
ref: 1874 October, John Tyndall, “Inaugural Address before the British Association”, in Popular Science, page 683:
glosses: Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:
text: “It's called transdimentional awareness,” Jay contributed to the conversation, “and it's like totally cosmic man.”
ref: 1999, John W. Milor, Apparition, page 272:
glosses: Of or relating to abstract spiritual or metaphysical ideas.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.
Synonyms: word: cosmic
word: universal
Hypernyms: word: multiversal
Hyponyms: word: celestial
word: spatial
word: extragalactic
word: galactic
word: intergalactic
word: nebular
word: nebulous
word: astral
word: solar
word: starly
word: stellar
word: sunly
word: planetary
word: asteroidal
word: cometary
word: cometesimal
word: meteoric
word: atmospheric
word: atmospherical
word: environmental
word: geodetic
word: geodynamic
word: geologic
word: geographic
word: geothermal
word: tectonic
word: topographic
Meronyms: word: Mercurial
word: Mercurian
word: Cytherean
word: Venerian
word: Venusian
word: Earthian
word: earthly
word: earthside
word: lunar
word: lunary
word: moonly
word: selenian
word: Terran
word: terrene
word: terrestrial
word: Martian
word: Callistan
word: Callistoan
word: Callistonian
word: Europan
word: Ganymedean
word: Ganymedian
word: Ionian
word: jovial
word: Jovian
word: Enceladan
word: Enceladean
word: Mimantean
word: Mimantian
word: Rhean
word: Saturnal
word: Saturnian
word: saturnine
word: Titanian
word: Arielian
word: Mirandan
word: Mirandian
word: Oberonian
word: Umbrielian
word: Uranian
word: Neptunian
word: Tritonian
word: Charonian
word: Plutonian
Derived terms: acosmic
anthropocosmic
astrocosmic
biocosmic
cosmically
cosmic background radiation
cosmic bowling
cosmic calendar
cosmic censorship
cosmic censorship hypothesis
cosmic disco
cosmic dust
cosmic egg
cosmic event horizon
cosmic gravitational-wave background
cosmic gravitational wave background
cosmic infrared background
cosmic irony
cosmicism
cosmicist
cosmicity
cosmicize
cosmic joker
cosmic latte
cosmic light horizon
cosmic microwave background
cosmic neutrino background
cosmic radiation
cosmic ray
cosmic singularity
cosmic string
cosmic teapot
cosmic time
cosmic wall
cosmic web
cosmic year
first cosmic velocity
geocosmic
hypercosmic
intercosmic
neocosmic
noncosmic
pancosmic
postcosmic
precosmic
psychocosmic
second cosmic velocity
sociocosmic
supercosmic
third cosmic velocity
transcosmic
ultracosmic
Related terms: word: astronautical
word: astronomical
word: cosmos
word: astronomy