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catabatic

catabatic is the alternative form of katabatic.

Meaning of katabatic

Adjective

katabatic (not comparable)

  1. Downslope on a mountainside.
    • At the field camp, paper-thin tents shudder beneath katabatic blasts of freezing wind, stoves sputter a stingy flame, and a few trudging specks haul shovels through a cold world where extra food and equipment cannot be bought at any price.2005, Nicholas Johnson, chapter 3, in Big Dead Place, →ISBN

Questions about catabatic

What is catabatic the alternative form of?
Catabatic is the alternative form of katabatic.

Words near catabatic in the dictionary

  1. Catabaptists
  2. catabases
  3. catabasia
  4. catabasion
  5. catabasis
  6. catabatic
  7. catabiosis
  8. catabiotic
  9. catabolic
  10. catabolically
  11. catabolin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catabatic (page history and authors); katabatic (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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