onomatopoietic
onomatopoietic is the alternative form of onomatopoetic.
Meaning of onomatopoetic
Adjective
onomatopoetic (comparative more onomatopoetic, superlative most onomatopoetic)
- Synonym of onomatopoeic.
- Synonyms:
- onomatopoeic
Noun
onomatopoietic (plural onomatopoietics)
- An onomatopoietic word.
- The Heb. ruh, sounded in two syllables, ru-ach, is an onomatopoietic.1866, Oliver Spencer Halsted, The Theology of the Bible, page 15
- This is not the case, but there is often such a similarity in the onomatopoietics of the most remote languages that scientific linguists are unanimous in discarding them from service in ethnological comparisons.1886, Johann Georg Heck, The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Sciences
Forms of onomatopoietic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more onomatopoietic |
| superlative | most onomatopoietic |
| Noun | |
| plural | onomatopoietics |
Origin of onomatopoietic
From Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”) + -ic.
Questions about onomatopoietic
- What does onomatopoietic mean?
- Onomatopoietic means an onomatopoietic word.
- What is onomatopoietic the alternative form of?
- Onomatopoietic is the alternative form of onomatopoetic.
- What part of speech is onomatopoietic?
- Onomatopoietic is a noun.
- What is the plural of onomatopoietic?
- The plural of onomatopoietic is onomatopoietics.
Words near onomatopoietic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: onomatopoietic (page history and authors); onomatopoetic (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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