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anticke

anticke is the obsolete form of antic.

anticke is the obsolete form of antique.

Meaning of antic

Adjective

antic (comparative more antic, superlative most antic)

  1. Playful, funny, absurd.
    • My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes,
      Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC...
  2. Grotesque, incongruous.
    • The amusement park environment of seaside resorts such as Venice and the antic eclecticism of Greene & Greene's pre-Craftsman work all preceded the establishment of the movie colony in Hollywood.2004, John Chase, Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular city, page 58
  3. (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
    • Fetch me my Rapier Boy, what dares the ſlaue / Come hither, couer'd with an antique face, / To fleere and ſcorne at our Solemnitie?c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Meaning of antique

Adjective

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

  1. Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
    • […] Phillip the younger issue of the king, / Coting the other hill in such arraie, / That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, / Streight trees of gold, the pendant leaues, / And their deuice of Antique heraldry, / Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, / Makes it the Orchard of the...1596, The Raigne of King Edvvard the third: […], London: Cuthbert Burby, unnumbered page
  2. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
    • Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time.1841 July 3, “Fine Arts”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 714, London, page 509, column 3
    Synonyms:
    antiquated
  3. Designating a style of type.
  4. Embossed without gilt.
  5. Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
    Synonyms:
    old
  6. (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically
    Synonyms:
    antic, specifically

See all 19 meanings of antique

Forms of anticke

Adjective
comparativemore anticke
superlativemost anticke
Noun
pluralantickes

Questions about anticke

What is anticke the obsolete form of?
Anticke is the obsolete form of antic.

Words near anticke in the dictionary

  1. anticize
  2. anticized
  3. anticizes
  4. anticizing
  5. antick
  6. anticke
  7. anticked
  8. anticker
  9. antickers
  10. antickes
  11. anticking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anticke (page history and authors); antic (page history and authors); antique (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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