variants
or less commonly cosmical
1
a
: of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone
cosmic radiation
b
: of, relating to, or concerned with abstract spiritual or metaphysical (see metaphysical sense 2) ideas
cosmic wisdom
2
: characterized by greatness especially in extent, intensity, or comprehensiveness
a cosmic thinker
a book of cosmic significance
Synonyms
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- galactic
- gargantuan
- giant
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
Examples of cosmic in a Sentence
The discovery caused a cosmic shift in people's views of the world.
predicted that the war would forever be regarded as a cosmic error
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The Saturn Return framework was a comforting thought: that there was some sort of cosmic force supporting the emerging self, on a timeline that matched my own life’s more closely.
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Rebekah Pahl, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Featuring digital cutout animation, the meta comedy turns on a cosmic animator hired by the Central Committee of the People’s Republic to create a philosophical film for Chairman Mao.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
As another important manner of cosmic evolution, merging galaxies may create an irregular galaxy — resulting in an amorphous shape full of gas and dust — or a ring galaxy — where material is pushed outwards, surrounding a dense core of older stars.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
The grand-scale and high-energy images befit the cosmic imagination of silent-era spectacles; the performances delivered in forum-filling diction match the expressionistic fury of nineteen-twenties movies, too.
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—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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Rebekah Pahl, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Featuring digital cutout animation, the meta comedy turns on a cosmic animator hired by the Central Committee of the People’s Republic to create a philosophical film for Chairman Mao.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
As another important manner of cosmic evolution, merging galaxies may create an irregular galaxy — resulting in an amorphous shape full of gas and dust — or a ring galaxy — where material is pushed outwards, surrounding a dense core of older stars.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
The grand-scale and high-energy images befit the cosmic imagination of silent-era spectacles; the performances delivered in forum-filling diction match the expressionistic fury of nineteen-twenties movies, too.
4.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Cosmic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cosmic. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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