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tropick

tropick is the obsolete form of tropic.

Meaning of tropic

Adjective

tropic (comparative more tropic, superlative most tropic)

  1. Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
    1. (rare) Hot and humid.
  2. (not comparable) Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.
    • The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is allosterically regulated by various tropic factors, such as BPG and acidity.
  3. Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.
    • This process of tropic change, once identified in nostalgia poems, can be applied to a range of new and emerging genres in various periods. Identifying the tropes of nostalgia, in other words, allows us to appreciate the process[…]2006, Aaron Santesso, A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 12

See all 6 meanings of tropic

Forms of tropick

Adjective
comparativemore tropick
superlativemost tropick
Noun
pluraltropicks

Questions about tropick

What is tropick the obsolete form of?
Tropick is the obsolete form of tropic.

Words near tropick in the dictionary

  1. tropicals
  2. tropicamide
  3. tropicamidum
  4. tropicbird
  5. tropicbirds
  6. tropick
  7. tropicks
  8. tropicopolitan
  9. tropicopolitans
  10. tropics
  11. Tropicália

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tropick (page history and authors); tropic (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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