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skiamorphic

skiamorphic is the alternative form 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

Forms of skiamorphic

comparativemore skiamorphic
superlativemost skiamorphic

Questions about skiamorphic

What is skiamorphic the alternative form of?
Skiamorphic is the alternative form of skeuomorphic.

Words near skiamorphic in the dictionary

  1. skiagraphing
  2. skiagraphs
  3. skiagraphy
  4. skiamachy
  5. skiamorph
  6. skiamorphic
  7. skiamorphism
  8. skiamorphs
  9. skiapod
  10. skiapods
  11. skiascope

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skiamorphic (page history and authors); skeuomorphic (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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