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telepathetic

/tɛlə.pəˈθɛtɪk/

telepathetic adjective: bad at telepathy. Also the alternative form of telepathic.

Adjective

telepathetic (comparative more telepathetic, superlative most telepathetic)

  1. (humorous, informal, rare) Bad at telepathy.
    • Besides, after two minutes of stretching and beaming my eyes in his direction, all I got was a dizzy spell—telepathetic, really.2005, Ian Souter, Pocket Tales Year 6 Twenty Pounds and All That Nonsense, page 19
    • And one minor nit: consultants are not telepathic, they're telepathetic.1995 September 20, Matt Clonfero, “SC-21 class?”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet)

Also used as

telepathetic is also the alternative form of telepathic.

Forms of telepathetic

comparativemore telepathetic
superlativemost telepathetic

Origin of telepathetic

Blend of telepathy + pathetic.

From telepathy + -etic.

Words formed from telepathetic

Questions about telepathetic

What does telepathetic mean?
Telepathetic means bad at telepathy.
What part of speech is telepathetic?
Telepathetic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce telepathetic?
Telepathetic is pronounced /tɛlə.pəˈθɛtɪk/.

Words near telepathetic in the dictionary

  1. telepapers
  2. teleparallel
  3. teleparallelism
  4. telepath
  5. telepathed
  6. telepathetic
  7. telepathetically
  8. telepathic
  9. telepathically
  10. telepathies
  11. telepathine

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