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anabatic

anabatic adjective: rising (up a slope). Also the ellipsis of anabatic wind.

Adjective

anabatic (comparative more anabatic, superlative most anabatic)

  1. rising (up a slope)
  2. Of or pertaining to anabasis

Also used as

anabatic is also the ellipsis of anabatic wind.

Antonyms of anabatic

Forms of anabatic

Adjective
comparativemore anabatic
superlativemost anabatic
Noun
pluralanabatics

Origin of anabatic

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰτός (ănăbătós, “moving upward”), from ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).

Words formed from anabatic

Phrases with anabatic

Questions about anabatic

What does anabatic mean?
Anabatic means rising (up a slope).
What part of speech is anabatic?
Anabatic is an adjective.

Words near anabatic in the dictionary

  1. anabasius
  2. anabathrid
  3. anabathrids
  4. anabathrum
  5. anabathrums
  6. anabatic
  7. anabatic wind
  8. anabatic winds
  9. anabatically
  10. anabatics
  11. Anabel

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