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piratic

piratic is the alternative form of piratical.

Meaning of piratical

Adjective

piratical (comparative more piratical, superlative most piratical)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
    • A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work,
      So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When Frederic Was a Little Lad”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 5
  2. Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.

Forms of piratic

comparativemore piratic
superlativemost piratic

Origin of piratic

From Latin pīrāticus, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτικός (peirātikós); equivalent to pirate + -ic.

Words formed from piratic

Questions about piratic

What is piratic the alternative form of?
Piratic is the alternative form of piratical.

Words near piratic in the dictionary

  1. pirateships
  2. piratess
  3. piratesses
  4. pirateware
  5. piratey
  6. piratic
  7. piratical
  8. piratically
  9. pirating
  10. piratings
  11. Piratini Republic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piratic (page history and authors); piratical (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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