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ATAVIC

Definition: ATAVIC

ATAVIC

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Atavic \A*tav"ic\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression atavique.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: ATAVIC

Non-English Usage: "ATAVIC" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (atavistic, reversionary).

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Modern Translation: ATAVIC

Language Translations for "ATAVIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

atavico (atavistic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atavicay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ATAVIC"

Words rhyming with "ATAVIC" (pronounced 'A*tav"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ATAVIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-t-v"

-1 letter: vatic.

-2 letters: acta, vita.

-3 letters: act, ait, ava, cat, tav, tic, vac, vat, via.

-4 letters: aa, ai, at, it, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-t-v"
 

+1 letter: vatical, viatica.

 

+2 letters: activate, cavatina, cavatine, cavitary, cavitate, vacating, vacation, viatical, vicarate.

 

+3 letters: activated, activates, activator, atavistic, avocation, calmative, captivate, causative, cavaletti, cavatinas, caveating, cavitated, cavitates, covariant, placative, vacations, vaccinate, vacillate, vaticinal, vicarates, vicariant, vicariate.

 

+4 letters: accusative, activating, activation, activators, adjectival, advocating, advocation, advocative, architrave, attractive, aviatrices, avocations, calmatives, capacitive, captivated, captivates, captivator, causatives, cavalletti, cavitating, cavitation, deactivate, divaricate, evacuating, evacuation, evacuative, excavating, excavation, inactivate, lacerative, reactivate, vacationed, vacationer, vaccinated, vaccinates, vaccinator, vacillated, vacillates, vacillator, vasoactive, vaticinate, vicariants, vicariates, vocational.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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