Word.ws English Dictionary

sympathetic inks

sympathetic inks is the plural of sympathetic ink.

Meaning of sympathetic ink

Noun

sympathetic ink (countable and uncountable, plural sympathetic inks)

  1. (dated) Invisible ink.
    • "I've got it! Sympathetic ink!" "You think so?" "Worth trying anyhow. Heat usually does the trick. Get some sticks. Well make a fire."1922, Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

Questions about sympathetic inks

What is sympathetic inks the plural of?
Sympathetic inks is the plural of sympathetic ink.

Words near sympathetic inks in the dictionary

  1. sympathetic chains
  2. sympathetic detonation
  3. sympathetic detonations
  4. sympathetic hyperactivity
  5. sympathetic ink
  6. sympathetic inks
  7. sympathetic magic
  8. sympathetic nervous system
  9. sympathetic nervous systems
  10. sympathetic powder
  11. sympathetic powders

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sympathetic inks (page history and authors); sympathetic ink (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: “sympathetic inks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sympathetic_inks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.