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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Jamie Cooper in Lincolnshire:

   I managed to photograph the comet approaching on Sunday evening through a small telescope, the comet has a similar orbit to the Great Comet of 1844, leading to speculation on whether C/2019 Y4 is a fragment of the same parent body.

4. Philip Sidney:

   With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

5. Kathrin Altwegg:

   The first time we saw it I think we all went a little bit into denial because it was not expected to be found in a comet, molecular oxygen is very reactive. There was a lot of hydrogen around when the solar system was formed. Everybody and all models showed that molecular oxygen would react with the hydrogen and would no longer be present as molecular oxygen.