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draconic

UK/dɹəˈkɒnɪk//dɹəˈkɑnɪk/

draconic adjective: relating to or suggestive of dragons.

Adjective (1)

draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

  1. Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
    • There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.1908, E. Walter Maunder, chapter V, in The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 196

Adjective (2)

draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

  1. (dated, rare) Very severe or strict; draconian.
    • […] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIV, page 37
    • The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.1932, Edvard Westermarck, chapter VIII, in Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, page 248
    Synonyms:
    draconical

Adjective (3) capitalized: Draconic

Draconic (comparative more Draconic, superlative most Draconic)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of draconic (“very severe or strict; draconian”).
    • […] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIV, page 37
    • Beggars, cut-purses, swindlers, tavern-bilks, broken life-guardsmen, foreign counts, native highwaymen, and some poor honest unfortunates, the victims of a Draconic law of debtor and creditor, all found their Patmos turn out to be a mere shifting quicksand.1860 February, [George Augustus Sala], “William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time. I.—Little Boy Hogarth.”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume I...

Synonyms of draconic

All synonyms of draconic

Forms of draconic

comparativemore draconic
superlativemost draconic
alternative formDraconic
comparativemore Draconic
superlativemost Draconic

Origin of draconic

From Latin dracō (“dragon”, stem dracōn-) + English -ic.

From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ic, after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws.

Words formed from draconic

Phrases with draconic

Questions about draconic

What does draconic mean?
Draconic means relating to or suggestive of dragons.
What part of speech is draconic?
Draconic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce draconic?
Draconic is pronounced /dɹəˈkɒnɪk/ (UK).

Words near draconic in the dictionary

  1. draconian
  2. draconianism
  3. draconianisms
  4. draconianly
  5. draconians
  6. draconic
  7. draconic chart
  8. draconic month
  9. draconic months
  10. draconical
  11. draconically

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