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pastellic

pastellic adjective: characteristic of pastels.

Adjective

pastellic (comparative more pastellic, superlative most pastellic)

  1. (rare) Characteristic of pastels.
    • Two other children play about her, and alongside the husband's strong, vigorous figure wrestles with his refractory horse. This decoration, purely pastellic in impression, is so soft and plastic that the clear colour seems ready to come off […]1904, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 33, page 150
    • Because of the unattractive colors of ordinary magnetic pigments it is possible to produce only dull, pastellic color toners, which were not very successful in the market.1990, Joseph Gaynor, SPSE - the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, Hard copy and printing materials, media, and processes

Forms of pastellic

comparativemore pastellic
superlativemost pastellic

Origin of pastellic

From pastel + -ic.

Questions about pastellic

What does pastellic mean?
Pastellic means characteristic of pastels.
What part of speech is pastellic?
Pastellic is an adjective.

Words near pastellic in the dictionary

  1. pastelike
  2. pastelist
  3. pastelists
  4. pastelle
  5. pastelles
  6. pastellic
  7. pastellist
  8. pastellists
  9. pastelly
  10. pastels
  11. pastepot

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