adjective

• 1Relating to or characteristic of karma.

  ‘the karmic wheel of life’

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  • ‘I sensed a deep karmic connection with him’
  • ‘In your individual life, you have infinite opportunity to act in concert with the karmic imperatives of your soul.’
  • ‘He gets to spend an afterlife in karmic bliss.’
  • ‘Most Indian systems of thought teach that gaining such insight brings about the liberation of the individual from karmic continuity.’
  • ‘His karmic lesson was to realize that he couldn't live life by purely mental decisions.’
  • ‘Indians almost subconsciously take to cricket as a representation of the placid, karmic life.’
  • ‘The illustrations of human decay from the first through eighth stages emphasize the consequences of the vicious cycle of human life and death deriving from karmic effect.’
  • ‘The Lord is said to be untouched by karmic activities, all-knowing, and teacher of ancient sages.’
  • ‘These concerns are in line with Buddhist karmic theory which asserts that a person's actions in this life will determine the character of his or her future existences.’
  • ‘Japanese Gothic plots typically place humans on a spiritual continuum, a karmic wheel, rather than in a divided world of good and evil.’
  • ‘Vietnamese Buddhists believe in reincarnation and karmic destiny (the belief that people get what they deserve).’

  1. 1.1informal Denoting good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one's actions.
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     • ‘his new job must be some form of karmic payback’
     • ‘There has got to be some karmic balance in the world for being born studly.’
     • ‘Maybe we were all paying the karmic price for our premier's fatuous grandstanding.’
     • ‘She seemed not to understand that America going to war is huge karmic retribution.’
     • ‘It was time for her to pay her karmic debt.’
     • ‘It is an idiotic move that backfires in a splendidly karmic way.’
     • ‘Unlike some, I do not think this public mess is a karmic payback for the actor's failure to indulge the press.’
     • ‘There is no divine retribution, no karmic justice - this is just life screwing you up for no discernable reason.’
     • ‘Believing in a karmic world, he believes that the things you do come back around to you.’
     • ‘Perhaps there is something more karmic at work. Some kind of retribution.’
     • ‘Following the overblown success of his previous film, it seems karmic that his new one opened without a spectacular advertising campaign.’