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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cosmic mean? 

• COSMIC (adjective)
  The adjective COSMIC has 2 senses:

1. of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe

2. inconceivably extended in space or time

  Familiarity information: COSMIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COSMIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

cosmic rays

Pertainym:

cosmos (everything that exists anywhere)

Derivation:

cosmos (everything that exists anywhere)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Inconceivably extended in space or time

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

cosmos (everything that exists anywhere)

 Context examples 

Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, astronomers analysed the signal from a fast radio burst to shed light on the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive galaxy.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

There they found the flung-out debris from the explosive birth of this clump of massive stars, looking like a cosmic version of fireworks with giant streamers rocketing off in all directions.

(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)

That's just under three times the diameter of Earth, but tiny in cosmic terms, especially considering the black hole in V404 Cygni weighs as much as 3 million Earths put together.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

Because cosmic ray particles carry an electrical charge, their paths become scrambled when they encounter magnetic fields on their journey to Earth.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes—cosmic bodies formed by the collapse of massive stars and so dense even light can't escape.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There was something cosmic in such things, and there was something cosmic in him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“This adds a fundamental piece to the puzzle that astronomers are building to picture how cosmic structures formed more than 12 billion years ago.”

(ESO Observations Reveal Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn, ESO)

The new study concerns supermassive black hole binaries — systems of two of these cosmic monsters.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

Astronomers often see ring and bubble-like structures in cosmic dust clouds.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)

Cosmic rays are energetic charged particles that come from nearby stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)