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. cometnoun

   Synonyms:
   blazing star

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1. List of paraphrases for "comet":

   guilty

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1. Morgan Schaller:

   A comet impact on its own may have contributed carbon to the atmosphere.

2. Sam Deen:

   Based on the given absolute magnitude, and given how exceptionally red it looked in 2014 precovery images from CFHT (the g - r color was 0.9, and r - i was 0.5!) I would estimate at an albedo of 0.01-0.08 a diameter of 130-370 kilometers (nominally 160) which puts it on a similar scale, if not larger than, Sarabat's huge comet C/1729 P1, and almost undoubtedly the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered- almost in dwarf planet territory! i have little doubt in my mind that as this gets closer to the sun, it will begin displaying the coma and tail typical of every other object yet seen in its orbit.

3. Karen Meech:

   Every time a new comet is discovered, everybody starts to try and get data so that you can get the orbit.

4. 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.

5. William Wordsworth:

   Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.