Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

archaistic

/ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ar-chais-tic
IPA: /ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk/

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.

noun

Archaistic themes, motifs, items, etc.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The emperor Augustus introduced an archaistic revival of ancient virtue and ancient religion, which caused the poem of Lucretius On the Nature of Things to become unpopular, and it remained so until the Renaissance."
"As in the case of Renaissance Italy, it is precisely the presence of the archaistic in the modern that is so fascinating to the cultural historian."

Etymology

From archaist + -ic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: archaist

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk/

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

more archaistic (comparative) most archaistic (superlative)

Derived Forms

archaistically

Questions

How do you pronounce archaistic?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk/.
What does archaistic mean?: Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.
Where does archaistic come from?: From archaist + -ic.

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