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antonomastic

antonomastic adjective: relating to, or characterized by, antonomasia.

Adjective

antonomastic (not comparable)

  1. (rhetoric) Relating to, or characterized by, antonomasia.

Origin of antonomastic

Borrowed from Latin antonomasticus, Ancient Greek ἀντονομασία (antonomasía, “antonomasia”).

Questions about antonomastic

What does antonomastic mean?
Antonomastic means relating to, or characterized by, antonomasia.
What part of speech is antonomastic?
Antonomastic is an adjective.

Words near antonomastic in the dictionary

  1. Antonivske
  2. Antonoff
  3. antonomasia
  4. antonomasias
  5. antonomasies
  6. antonomastic
  7. antonomastical
  8. antonomastically
  9. antonomasy
  10. Antonopoulos
  11. Antonopouloses

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