acrostic
acros·tic
acrostic · more acrostic · most acrostic
Of or pertaining to acrosticsOf or pertaining to acrostics.
UK/əˈkɹɒstɪk/US/əˈkɹɔstɪk/
» It's an acrostic.
Meaning
1 senses(also, attributive)Of or pertaining to acrostics.
Examples
2 sentencesIt's an acrostic.
Tom composed an acrostic spelling out THOMAS.
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French acrostiche, acrostique (“acrostic”) (modern French acrostiche)Borrowed from Middle French acrostiche, acrostique (“acrostic”) (modern French acrostiche), and its etymon Late Latin acrostichis, from Ancient Greek ἀκροστιχίς (akrostikhís), from ἄκρο- (ákro-, prefix indicating, among other things, the extremity or tip of something) + στῐ́χος (stĭ́khos, “row or file of soldiers; line of poetry, verse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to climb, go”)).
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Forms
more acrostic, most acrostic| Comparative | more acrostic Lesson |
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| Superlative | most acrostic Lesson |
regular
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form