Word.ws English Dictionary

balladic

balladic adjective: characteristic of a ballad.

Adjective

balladic (comparative more balladic, superlative most balladic)

  1. Characteristic of a ballad
    • Still, my favorite moments are the quiet ones, like when Henry, the tell-me-about-the-rabbits-George deviate, croons his balladic confession, "I did a thing."1989 July 21, Anthony Adler, “Game of Love”, in Chicago Reader
    • Vedder and the rest of the band are at their best when they're feeling balladic.1994 December 2, Bill Wyman, “Posture After Posture”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of balladic

comparativemore balladic
superlativemost balladic

Origin of balladic

From ballad + -ic.

Questions about balladic

What does balladic mean?
Balladic means characteristic of a ballad.
What part of speech is balladic?
Balladic is an adjective.

Words near balladic in the dictionary

  1. balladeers
  2. ballader
  3. balladers
  4. ballades
  5. balladesque
  6. balladic
  7. balladical
  8. balladier
  9. balladiers
  10. balladin
  11. balladine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: balladic (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “balladic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/balladic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.