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Asiatick

Asiatick is the archaic form of Asiatic.

Meaning of Asiatic

Adjective

Asiatic (comparative more Asiatic, superlative most Asiatic)

  1. (dated) Asian, specifically, relating to the parts of Asia east of Egypt, i.e the Middle East or West Asia.
  2. (slang) Eccentric or crazy as a result of spending a long time in the Far East.
    • A soldier might grab his rifle and batter his way to the heart of some Jap position. Back home they gave him all sorts of medals but his companions dismissed him as the poor bastard who finally went Asiatic.1951, James Albert Michener, The Voice of Asia, page 6

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Forms of Asiatick

Adjective
comparativemore Asiatick
superlativemost Asiatick
Noun
pluralAsiaticks

Questions about Asiatick

What is Asiatick the archaic form of?
Asiatick is the archaic form of Asiatic.

Words near Asiatick in the dictionary

  1. Asiaticization
  2. Asiaticize
  3. Asiaticized
  4. Asiaticizes
  5. Asiaticizing
  6. Asiatick
  7. Asiaticks
  8. Asiaticness
  9. asiaticoside
  10. Asiatics
  11. Asiatization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Asiatick (page history and authors); Asiatic (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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