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cos·mic

 (kŏz′mĭk) also cos·mi·cal (-mĭ-kəl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the regions of the universe distinct from Earth.
2. Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast: "a coming together of heads of government to take up the cosmic business of nations" (Meg Greenfield).

[Greek kosmikos, from kosmos, universe.]

cos′mi·cal·ly adv.
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cosmic

(ˈkɒzmɪk)
adj
1. (Astronomy) of or relating to the whole universe: cosmic laws.
2. (Astronomy) occurring or originating in outer space, esp as opposed to the vicinity of the earth, the solar system, or the local galaxy: cosmic rays.
3. immeasurably extended in space or time; vast
4. rare harmonious
ˈcosmically adv
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cos•mic

(ˈkɒz mɪk)

also cos′mi•cal,



adj.
1. of or pertaining to the cosmos: cosmic laws.
2. characteristic of the cosmos or its phenomena: cosmic events.
3. immeasurably extended in time and space; vast.
4. forming a part of the material universe, esp. outside of the earth.
[1640–50; < Greek kosmikós worldly, universal =kósm(os) world, arrangement + -ikos -ic]
cos′mi•cal•ly, adv.
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cos·mic

(kŏz′mĭk)
Relating to the universe or the objects in it.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.cosmic - of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe; "cosmic laws"; "cosmic catastrophe"; "cosmic rays"
2.cosmic - inconceivably extended in space or time
big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
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cosmic

adjective
1. extraterrestrial, stellar Inside the heliosphere we are screened from cosmic rays.
2. universal, general, omnipresent, all-embracing, overarching There are cosmic laws governing our world.
3. vast, huge, immense, infinite, grandiose, limitless, measureless It was an understatement of cosmic proportions.
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cosmic

adjective
So pervasive and all-inclusive as to exist in or affect the whole world:
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Translations
كَوْنـي
kosmický
kosmisk
kosminen
kozmičkisvemirski
kozmikus
alheims-
kosminiskosmonautaskosmosas
kosmisks
kozmický
evrenle ilgili

cosmic

[ˈkɒzmɪk]
A. ADJcósmico
B. CPD cosmic rays NPLrayos mpl cósmicos
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cosmic

[ˈkɒzmɪk] adj
[radiation] → cosmique
(relating to the universe) [order] → cosmique; [spirit] → supérieur(e)cosmic rays [ˌkɒzmɪkˈreɪz] nplrayons mpl cosmiques
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cosmic

adjkosmisch; cosmic dustWeltraumnebel m
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cosmic

[ˈkɒzmɪk] adjcosmico/a
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cosmic

(ˈkozmik) adjective
having to do with the universe or outer space. cosmic rays.
ˈcosmonaut (-noːt) noun
a person who travels in space; an astronaut.
the cosmos (ˈkozmos) , ((American) -məs)
the universe.
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References in classic literature ?
There was something cosmic in such things, and there was something cosmic in him.
James Wilson MacPhail, but many reasons why we should watch with a very close and interested attention every indication of change in those cosmic surroundings upon which our own ultimate fate may depend."
Or he may see intellectual spectres and phantoms that are cosmic and logical and that take the forms of syllogisms.
While the court was entirely overgrown with the yellow, moss-like vegetation which blankets practically the entire surface of Mars, yet numerous fountains, statuary, benches, and pergola-like contraptions bore witness to the beauty which the court must have presented in bygone times, when graced by the fair-haired, laughing people whom stern and unalterable cosmic laws had driven not only from their homes, but from all except the vague legends of their descendants.
It was a rip- snorting, sky-splitting sound as of a cosmic fabric being torn asunder between the hands of some powerful god.
Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time--things that no other mortal eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so long dead that even in the lowest Cambrian stratum no trace of it remains.
It seemed as though some great cosmic thing lay dead.
After this he formally bids farewell to the cosmic and Olympian deities and enumerates the sons born of goddess to mortals.
And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die.
It would come, and it would come; a grisly thing, a specter born in the black caverns of terror; a power primeval, cosmic, shadowing the tortures of the lost souls flung out to chaos and destruction.
It may be that save in this little planet, this speck of cosmic dust, invisible long before the nearest star could be attained--it may be, I say, that nowhere else does this thing called pain occur.
Slowly it withdrew, sob by sob, into whatever great bosom had birthed it, until it whimpered deadly whispers of wrath and as equally seductive whispers of delight, striving still to be heard, to convey some cosmic secret, some understanding of infinite import and value.