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skeumorphic

skeumorphic is the misspelling of skeuomorphic.

Meaning of skeuomorphic

Adjective

skeuomorphic (comparative more skeuomorphic, superlative most skeuomorphic)

  1. Pertaining to skeuomorphs, obsolete design elements which are retained for familiarity or out of tradition, even though they no longer serve any functional purpose.
    • And just as “expectancy” caused the transfer of thong-work from the flint axe, where it was functional, to the bronze celt, where it was skeuomorphic, it carried the chevrons and cruciforms of basketry to the decoration of earthen vessels.1889, Henry Colley March, “The Meaning of Ornament; or its Archæology and its Psychology”, in Transactions of the Lancashire and Chesire Antiquarian Society, volume 7, page 168

Questions about skeumorphic

What is skeumorphic the misspelling of?
Skeumorphic is the misspelling of skeuomorphic.

Words near skeumorphic in the dictionary

  1. skettle
  2. skettles
  3. sketty
  4. skeul
  5. skeuls
  6. skeumorphic
  7. skeumorphism
  8. skeuomorph
  9. skeuomorphic
  10. skeuomorphically
  11. skeuomorphism

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