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neoteric

UK/niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/

neoteric adjective: modern, new-fangled.

Adjective

neoteric (not comparable)

  1. Modern, new-fangled.
    • Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English, page 294
  2. New; recent.
    • Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?1998 August 21, The Toronto Star
    • A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order.1997, Espen Aarseth, Cybertext

Noun

neoteric (plural neoterics)

  1. A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
    • Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise., Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140
  2. Someone with new or modern ideas.
  3. (historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.

neoteric meaning in Tamil and Kannada

neoteric in Tamil

புதிய

neoteric in Kannada

ಆಧುನಿಕ, ಈಚಿನ, ನವೀನ

Forms of neoteric

Adjective
alternative form (obsolete)neoterical
alternative form (obsolete)neoterick
Noun
pluralneoterics

Origin of neoteric

From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).

Words formed from neoteric

Questions about neoteric

What does neoteric mean?
Neoteric means modern, new-fangled.
What is neoteric in Tamil?
Neoteric in Tamil is புதிய. See Neoteric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is neoteric?
Neoteric can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce neoteric?
Neoteric is pronounced /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/ (UK).

Words near neoteric in the dictionary

  1. neotenizes
  2. neotenizing
  3. neotenous
  4. neotenously
  5. neoteny
  6. neoteric
  7. neoterical
  8. neoterically
  9. neoterick
  10. neoterics
  11. neoterise

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