Meaning & use

cosmic

adjective·Academic

Relating to the universe as a whole, or vast in scale, importance, or extent.

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Astronomers detected cosmic radiation left over from the early universe.

Losing the championship felt like a cosmic joke after such a perfect season.

A note on using this word

Cosmic is used literally for outer space phenomena and figuratively for anything of enormous, almost universal, scale.

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Words with an opposite meaning

earthlymundane

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