Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the regions of the universe distinct from the Earth.
- adj. Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast: "a coming together of heads of government to take up the cosmic business of nations” ( Meg Greenfield).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the universe, especially to the universe regarded as subject to a harmonious system of laws. But in the older writers it marks rather an opposite conception of the universe, as governed wholly by mechanics, and not by teleological principles.
- Hence Pertaining to universal order; harmonious, as the universe; orderly: the opposite of chaotic.
- Forming a part of the material universe, especially of what lies outside of the solar system.
- In astronomy, visible for the first time before sunrise: only in the phrase the cosmical setting of a star.
- Inconceivably prolonged or protracted, like the periods of time required for the development of great astronomical changes; immeasurably extended in space; universal in extent.
- Of or pertaining to cosmism: as, the cosmic philosophy.
- n. A name proposed by H. L. Fairchild, in accordance with the new planetesimal hypothesis, for the primitive massive rocks.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
- adj. Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.
- adj. Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.
- adj. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.
- adj. Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of
acronycal . - adj. of unsurpassed size, extent, or significance; vast.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. inconceivably extended in space or time
- adj. of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe
Etymologies
- Greek kosmikos, from kosmos, universe.
Examples
“The term cosmic consciousness as well describes this condition of the disciple, as any words can, perhaps, although the term liberation is more literal, since the influx of this state of being, is actually the liberation of the _atman_, the eternal Self, from the illusion of the external, or _maya_.”
“Although my parents were orthodox Jews, the Holocaust had severely tested their belief in the God of Abraham and the idea of what I call cosmic justice which in biblical terms equates to heaven and hell.”
“And so, I have my first slide to talk about the dawning of the universe and what I call the cosmic scene investigation, that is, looking at the relics of creation and inferring what happened at the beginning, and then following it up and trying to understand it.”
“The Ahriman of Huxley, the principle of evil, is what he termed the cosmic process, that great play of forces, by which, in a ruthless struggle for existence, the fittest (by which is meant the most suited to the surrounding conditions and not necessarily the ethically best) have survived at the expense of the less fit.”
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
“So that when the Cylons come back and nuke the humans, there is a certain cosmic payback. jb”
“Among his research papers one finds included, the discovery of neutral pions in cosmic rays (together with J. Hooper and D.T. King at Bristol University, England) and the first systematic study of antiproton annihilations (together with research groups at the University of California, Berkeley, USA).”
“Only remain cosmic force and matter, ever in flux, ever acting and reacting and realizing the eternal types-the priest, the soldier, and the king.”
“If you remove that one argument, that the land belongs in cosmic truth to the Palestinians, and no logic or arbitration can undo that, then all other arguments fall to the ground rapidly.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel
“There is a certain cosmic justice in what has happened to Huckabee's career.”
“By a strange twist of fate, she finds herself caught up in cosmic time travel with the oddball Doctor Who.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cosmic’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 338 more...
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How to divide everything
body, mind, soul, earth, water, air, solar system, interstellar, galactic, intergalactic, cosmic, heaven and 3 more...
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A friend of mine is changing her surname to Rae. She has a pleasant but unremarkable first name, and no middle name. So let's give her a memorable middle name. Come on Wordies, I know you can do it.
gamma, x, cosmic, sting, billy, more, death, hoo, tanker, norma, rae, sugar and 39 more...
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pretty
pretty words.
nymph, silhouette, cosmic, pixie, illumination, serendipity, starlight, wanderlust, moon, Lyra, lullaby, effervescent and 24 more...
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cosmo-, cosm-
of or relating to the world or universe
cosmography, cosmology, cosmologist, cosmopolitan, cosmonaut, cosmopolite, cosmogonic, cosmographer, cosmogony, cosmodrome, cosmographic, cosmogenic and 32 more...
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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