titanic
/taɪˈtænɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
adj
Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium.
adj
Of a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted.
Example Sentences
- "Rome—Rome imperial, bows her to the storm, / In the same dust and blackness, and we pass / The skeleton of her Titanic form, / Wrecks of another world, whose ashes still are warm."
- "And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have overarched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs."
- "The Titanic story inspired a movie considered as one of the best of all time."
- "Surely , one doesn't want another Titanic, with everyone sailing along in the serene belief that all will be well"
- ""[…]We don't want another Titanic on our hands. Come on, folks, there's plenty of lifeboats for everybody. Make your way down.""
- "It is time that we review them holistically. But is is not easy to move the world. This is a Titanic that will continue to steer towards the iceberg because of its momentum."
Etymology
See Titanic.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /taɪˈtænɪk/
- British English: /taɪˈtænɪk/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
titanic prime
fluotitanic acid
titanic acid
titanic iron ore
titanico-
titanic oxide
titanic schorl
rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic