aquatic
UK/əˈkwæ.tɪk//əˈkwɑ.tɪk/
aquatic adjective: relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.
Adjective
aquatic (comparative more aquatic, superlative most aquatic)
Noun
aquatic (plural aquatics)
- Any aquatic plant.
- In such a cistern the present and other hardy aquatics may be grown with success.1835, Benjamin Maund, The Botanic Garden
aquatic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
aquatic in Hindi
- relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water
- जलज jalaj, जलीय jalīya, जलचर jalcar
aquatic in Tamil
- நீர் வாழ்வன, நீரில் வாழ்வன, நீர்வாழ் செடி, நீர்வாழ் உயிரினம், நீர்விளையாட்டுக்காரர், நீரில் வளர்கிற
aquatic in Urdu
- aquatic
- آبی ābī
aquatic in Bengali
- relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water
- জলজ joloj
More languagesFewer languages
- aquatic in Telugu
- నీటి nīṭi
- aquatic in Malayalam
- ജലത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, ജലത്തിലെ, ജലത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടാകുന്ന, കടലിനെ സംബന്ധിച്ച
- aquatic in Kannada
- ಜಲವಾಸಿ, ಜಲಜೀವಿ, ಜಲೀಯ, ನೀರಿನ
- aquatic in Odia
- ଜଳଚର jaḷacara
- aquatic in Sanskrit
- नादेय nādeyá
- aquatic in Arabic
- مَائِيّ māʔiyy
- aquatic in Malay
- air, akuatik
- aquatic in Vietnamese
- thuỷ sinh, thuỷ cư
Examples of aquatic in a sentence
- Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.
- Limnophilid larvae are fitted for life in almost every aquatic situation.
- My lab studies the connections between population, community and ecosystem ecology in aquatic environments.
Synonyms of aquatic
Forms of aquatic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more aquatic |
| superlative | most aquatic |
| alternative form (obsolete) | aquatick |
| Noun | |
| plural | aquatics |
Origin of aquatic
Borrowed from Middle French aquatique (“living in water”), from Latin aquaticus (“relating to water”), from aqua (“water”).
Words formed from aquatic
Phrases with aquatic
Words that rhyme with aquatic
- exotic
- chaotic
- hypnotic
- sclerotic
- homoerotic
- neurotic
- quixotic
- antibiotic
- asymptotic
- biotic
- despotic
- dicrotic
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ekpyrotic
- heterotic
- idiotic
- narcotic
- Nilotic
- probiotic
- semiotic
- symbiotic
- amniotic
- anadiplotic
- aponeurotic
- aryepiglottic
- autoerotic
- epiglottic
- erotic
- extraglottic
- glottic
- homeotic
- infraglottic
- intraglottic
- miotic
- osmotic
- paraglottic
- periglottic
- polyglottic
- psittacotic
- subglottic
- supraglottic
- thyroepiglottic
- transglottic
- unhypnotic
Questions about aquatic
- What does aquatic mean?
- Aquatic means relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.
- What is aquatic in Hindi?
- Aquatic in Hindi is जलज (jalaj), जलीय (jalīya), जलचर (jalcar). See Aquatic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is aquatic?
- Aquatic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce aquatic?
- Aquatic is pronounced /əˈkwɑ.tɪk/ (US).
Words near aquatic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aquatic (page history and authors); aquatic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); آبی (Urdu) (page history and authors); aquatic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); aquatic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); नादेय (Sanskrit) (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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