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onomatopeic

onomatopeic is the obsolete spelling of onomatopoeic.

Meaning of onomatopoeic

Adjective

onomatopoeic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to onomatopoeia.
  2. Having the property of onomatopoeia.
    • There are also three ways in which katakana is used for writing Japanese words:
      1 to make words stand out, for example, in advertising: トヨタ (Toyota)
      2 to classify species of plants and animals, for example in botanical gardens
      3 to write onomatopoeic words2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 31

Origin of onomatopeic

From onomatopeia + -ic.

Questions about onomatopeic

What is onomatopeic the obsolete spelling of?
Onomatopeic is the obsolete spelling of onomatopoeic.

Words near onomatopeic in the dictionary

  1. onomatomania
  2. onomatomantic
  3. onomatope
  4. onomatopeia
  5. onomatopeias
  6. onomatopeic
  7. onomatopes
  8. onomatophobia
  9. onomatophore
  10. onomatophores
  11. onomatopies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onomatopeic (page history and authors); onomatopoeic (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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