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listicle

Syllables: list·i·cle/ˈlɪstɪkl̩/

listicle noun: an article based around a list.

Noun

listicle (plural listicles)

  1. (informal) An article based around a list.
    • Dishy books! Bruno Mars! Human excrement! Relieve the year that was in handy listicle form, on page 52.2011 January–February, Doug Brod, editor, Spin, New York, N.Y.: Spin Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4
    • "6 TITANIC SURVIVORS WHO SHOULD HAVE DIED." "THESE 9 NAZI ATROCITIES WILL MAKE YOU LOSE FAITH IN HUMANITY." "5 INSANE PLANS FOR FEEDING WEST BERLIN YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE REAL." These are just some of the lists that the comic strip "XKCD" recently joked would result from retrofitting the twentieth...2013 December 2, Maria Konnikova, “A list of reasons why our brains love lists”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2014

listicle meaning in Tamil

listicle in Tamil

பட்டியல் கட்டுரை

Examples of listicle in a sentence

  • Despite the growing derision of listicles exemplified by the comic, numbered lists—a venerable media format—have become one of the most ubiquitous ways to package content on the Web.2013 December 2, Maria Konnikova, “A list of reasons why our brains love lists”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine...
  • The Internet did not invent the listicle.2014 April 7, Megan Garber, “Victorian Buzzfeed:^([sic]) ‘The 25 Stages From Courtship to Marriage’: Here’s a listicle from the 19th...
  • It seems little more than an exercise in googling, an attempt to sell the listicle as literature.2017 September 10, Leo Robson, “The Golden House is Salman Rushdie’s not-so-great American novel”, in The New Statesman, archived from the...
  • And when they do, readers may find themselves on an unfamiliar website with an odd name, faced with a photo gallery of regrettable tattoos or a listicle on 22 celebrities with ugly spouses.2019 October 4, Tiffany Hsu, “You Will Be Shocked by This Article”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2020:

Forms of listicle

plurallisticles

Origin of listicle

Blend of list + article.

Questions about listicle

What does listicle mean?
Listicle means an article based around a list.
What is listicle in Tamil?
Listicle in Tamil is பட்டியல் கட்டுரை. See Listicle meaning in Tamil.
How do you use listicle in a sentence?
Despite the growing derision of listicles exemplified by the comic, numbered lists—a venerable media format—have become one of the most ubiquitous ways to package content on the Web.
What part of speech is listicle?
Listicle is a noun.
How do you pronounce listicle?
Listicle is pronounced /ˈlɪstɪkl̩/.
What is the plural of listicle?
The plural of listicle is listicles.

Words near listicle in the dictionary

  1. listful
  2. listfuls
  3. listheses
  4. listhesis
  5. listhetic
  6. listicle
  7. listicles
  8. listing
  9. Listing number
  10. Listing numbers
  11. listingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: listicle (page history and authors); listicle (Tamil 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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