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-atic

-atic is the alternative form of -tic.

Meaning of -tic

Suffix

-tic

  1. Forms adjectives from nouns ending with -sis, -o, or -a
  2. Forms adjectives from nouns ending with ‘-ism’, replacing this ending with ‘-istic’

Origin of -atic

Rebracketing of -tic after Greek words ending in -μα (-ma), such as problematic; extended to new environments in modern scientific coinages as such lymphatic; likely reanalyzed as if from -ate + -ic.

Questions about -atic

What is -atic the alternative form of?
-atic is the alternative form of -tic.

Words near -atic in the dictionary

  1. -ated
  2. -ates
  3. -athlon
  4. -athon
  5. -athons
  6. -atic
  7. -atim
  8. -ating
  9. -ation
  10. -ations
  11. -ative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -atic (page history and authors); -tic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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