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ikonomatic

ikonomatic is the alternative form of iconomatic.

Meaning of iconomatic

Adjective

iconomatic (not comparable)

  1. The use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters.
    • We have, so far as I am aware, no scientific term to express this manner of phonetic writing, and I propose for it therefore the adjective ikonomatic...1886, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Essays of an Americanist, pages 207–8

Forms of ikonomatic

comparativemore ikonomatic
superlativemost ikonomatic

Questions about ikonomatic

What is ikonomatic the alternative form of?
Ikonomatic is the alternative form of iconomatic.

Words near ikonomatic in the dictionary

  1. ikon
  2. ikona
  3. ikonas
  4. ikonic
  5. ikonically
  6. ikonomatic
  7. ikons
  8. ikr
  9. ikra
  10. ikranite
  11. ikranites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ikonomatic (page history and authors); iconomatic (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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