echt
/ɛkt/
echt adjective: proper, real, genuine, true to type.
Adjective
echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)
- Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
- I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8
- And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california (Usenet)
Proper noun capitalized: Echt
Echt
- A small village at a crossroads in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ7305).
- A town in Echt-Susteren municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.
echt meaning in Tamil and Kannada
echt in Tamil
- உண்மையான, அசல், முறையான
echt in Kannada
- ಅಪ್ಪಟ, ನಿಜವಾದ
Forms of echt
| comparative | more echt |
|---|---|
| superlative | most echt |
Origin of echt
Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiw. First use in English appears c. 1916.
Words that rhyme with echt
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- respect
- deflect
- dissect
- expect
- redirect
- suspect
- correct
- defect
- disconnect
- infect
- inflect
- neglect
- resurrect
- unchecked
- abject
- bisect
- deject
- deselect
- genuflect
- incorrect
- inspect
- interject
- introspect
- object
- sect
- wrecked
- conject
- convect
- decked
- detect
- elect
- intersect
- necked
- perfect
- prospect
- protect
- recollect
- reconnect
- select
- subject
- trisect
- bandreject
- cathect
- cobra effect
- counterobject
- despect
- disinfect
- disject
Questions about echt
- What does echt mean?
- Echt means proper, real, genuine, true to type.
- What is echt in Tamil?
- Echt in Tamil is உண்மையான, அசல், முறையான. See Echt meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is echt?
- Echt can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce echt?
- Echt is pronounced /ɛkt/.
Words near echt in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: echt (page history and authors); Echt (page history and authors); echt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); echt (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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