Word.ws English Dictionary

prokaryotic

prokaryotic adjective: of or having the characteristics of prokaryotes, especially bacteria.

Adjective

prokaryotic (not comparable)

  1. Of or having the characteristics of prokaryotes, especially bacteria.
  2. Of cells, lacking a nucleus.

Synonyms of prokaryotic

Antonyms

Origin of prokaryotic

From prokaryote + -ic.

Words formed from prokaryotic

Questions about prokaryotic

What does prokaryotic mean?
Prokaryotic means of or having the characteristics of prokaryotes, especially bacteria.
What part of speech is prokaryotic?
Prokaryotic is an adjective.

Words near prokaryotic in the dictionary

  1. projicience
  2. projicient
  3. projicients
  4. prokaryote
  5. prokaryotes
  6. prokaryotic
  7. prokaryotically
  8. proke
  9. proked
  10. prokeimena
  11. prokeimenon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prokaryotic (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “prokaryotic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prokaryotic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.