Synonyms for comet
ˈkɒm ɪtcomet

Princeton's WordNet

1. cometnoun

   (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

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1. • Astronomy
   • Extraterrestrial Object

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1. cometnoun

   Synonyms:
   blazing star

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1. List of paraphrases for "comet":

   guilty

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1. Bill Cooke:

   This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet.

2. Desiderius Erasmus:

   [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

3. Karen Meech:

   On our team we've been scrambling here at the University of Hawaii to get observations to make position measurements, every time a new comet is discovered, everybody starts to try and get data so that you can get the orbit.

4. Imran Sultan:

   The juxtaposition of our friendly visitor and galaxies hundreds of millions of light-years away really conveys how enormous our universe is, this comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary.

5. Leif Tapanila:

   Here's a great example of what happens when a meteor or comet hits a marine environment, and it doesn't really do a whole lot.