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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

anticlastic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
an-ti-clas-tic
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped

adj

of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is negative at all points

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + κλαστός (klastós, “broken in pieces”) + -ic.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Antonyms

synclastic

Rhymes With

fantastic plastic enthusiastic drastic sarcastic elastic stochastic monastic dynastic spastic bombastic thermoplastic

Questions

What does anticlastic mean?
curved in opposite ways in two directions; saddle-shaped
Where does anticlastic come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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