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scalic

scalic adjective: relating to a musical scale.

Adjective

scalic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a musical scale.
    • Took a long soak in the tub and wrote a well-knotted set of scalic bass lines.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    scalar

Synonyms of scalic

Origin of scalic

From scale + -ic.

Words that rhyme with scalic

Questions about scalic

What does scalic mean?
Scalic means relating to a musical scale.
What part of speech is scalic?
Scalic is an adjective.

Words near scalic in the dictionary

  1. Scali
  2. Scalia
  3. Scalian
  4. Scalians
  5. Scalias
  6. scalic
  7. Scalici
  8. scalicide
  9. scalicides
  10. Scalicis
  11. scalid

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