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schismatic

UK/ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/US/ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/

schismatic adjective: of or pertaining to a schism.

Adjective

schismatic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a schism.
    • The pontiff had made a last-ditch effort to persuade the society to halt the ordinations, calling them a “schismatic act” and a “sin of extreme gravity”.2026 July 1, Angela Giuffrida, “Fears of Catholic schism as defiant sect ordains ultra-conservative bishops”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. Of or pertaining to a schisma.
  3. Divisive.
    • schismatic opinions or proposals

Noun

schismatic (plural schismatics)

  1. A person involved in a schism.
    • He semeth a sysmatyke
      Or els an heretike,
      For fayth in hym is faynte.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 17–19
    • Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

schismatic meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic

schismatic in Tamil

அரசனுக்குரிய

schismatic in Urdu

خارجی, رافذی

schismatic in Malayalam

heterodox, separatist, dissident
മതഭിന്നത ജനിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, മതഭേദകമായ, വിമത, പിളർപ്പിനെഅനുകൂലിക്കുന്ന, വിഭാഗീയ ചിന്താഗതിയുള്ള, വിഭാഗീയ പ്രവണതയുള്ള

schismatic in Arabic

religion: of or pertaining to a schism
اِنْشِقَاقِيّ inšiqāqiyy

Forms of schismatic

Adjective
alternative form (obsolete)schismatick
Noun
pluralschismatics

Origin of schismatic

From Middle English scismatik with etymological respelling, from Middle French scismatique, from Latin schismaticus, from Ancient Greek σχισματικός (skhismatikós), from σχίσμα (skhísma, “cleft, division”). The music sense is based on schisma, from the same ultimate Greek source; compare schism.

Words formed from schismatic

  • schismatic temperament

Questions about schismatic

What does schismatic mean?
Schismatic means of or pertaining to a schism.
What is schismatic in Tamil?
Schismatic in Tamil is அரசனுக்குரிய. See Schismatic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is schismatic?
Schismatic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce schismatic?
Schismatic is pronounced /ʃɪzˈmæt.ɪk/ (UK).

Words near schismatic in the dictionary

  1. schism
  2. schism-shop
  3. schism-shops
  4. schisma
  5. schismas
  6. schismatic
  7. schismatical
  8. schismaticall
  9. schismatically
  10. schismaticalness
  11. schismaticals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: schismatic (page history and authors); schismatic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); schismatic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); schismatic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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