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diaeretic

/daɪəˈɹɛtɪk/

diaeretic adjective: featuring diaeresis.

Adjective

diaeretic (comparative more diaeretic, superlative most diaeretic)

  1. Featuring diaeresis.
    • The word create is dieretic, whereas creature is synaeretic.
  2. Written with a diaeresis.
    • Some words have many spellings: Take, for example, coordinate, which also has a hyphenated spelling variant — co-ordinate — and a dieretic one, coördinate.
  3. (rhetoric) Separative.

Forms of diaeretic

comparativemore diaeretic
superlativemost diaeretic
alternative formdieretic
alternative formdiæretic

Words that rhyme with diaeretic

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Questions about diaeretic

What does diaeretic mean?
Diaeretic means featuring diaeresis.
What part of speech is diaeretic?
Diaeretic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce diaeretic?
Diaeretic is pronounced /daɪəˈɹɛtɪk/ (UK).

Words near diaeretic in the dictionary

  1. diadumenoi
  2. diadumenos
  3. diaecious
  4. diaereses
  5. diaeresis
  6. diaeretic
  7. diaf
  8. diafanization
  9. diafilter
  10. diafiltered
  11. diafiltrate

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