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ophthalmick

ophthalmick is the obsolete form of ophthalmic.

Meaning of ophthalmic

Adjective

ophthalmic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the eyes.
    • Eyedrops are an ophthalmic solution.
  2. Visionary, looking to the future.
    • Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronise me.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 161

Questions about ophthalmick

What is ophthalmick the obsolete form of?
Ophthalmick is the obsolete form of ophthalmic.

Words near ophthalmick in the dictionary

  1. ophthalmic arteries
  2. ophthalmic artery
  3. ophthalmic nerve
  4. ophthalmic nerves
  5. ophthalmically
  6. ophthalmick
  7. ophthalmics
  8. ophthalmies
  9. ophthalmist
  10. ophthalmists
  11. ophthalmite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ophthalmick (page history and authors); ophthalmic (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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