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Definition: Gnomic |
GnomicAdjective1. Relating to or containing gnomes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gnomic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Maxim | Adjective: aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric; axiomatic, gnomic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gnomic |
| English words defined with "gnomic": Gnomically. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gnomic": Pathognomonic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gnomic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (gnomic). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gnomic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Gnomic" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gnomic": Gnomic Poets ♦ gnomic projection. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gnomic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gnomic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me aforizma (aphoristic). (various references) | |
Arabic | مأثور. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гномически, афористичен (aphoristic, sententious), поучителен (admonitory, didactic, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, improving, instructive, moral, preceptive, preceptorial, sapiential). (various references) | |
French | gnomique (gnomonic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gnómikus. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omicgnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gnômico, sentencioso (sententious). (various references) | |
Romanian | gnomic, referitor la maxime sau aforisme, concis (brief, compact, compendious, concise, curt, laconic, laconically, lapidary, short, shortly, terse), aforistic (aphoristic, aphoristical). (various references) | |
Russian | гномический. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gnomski. (various references) | |
Swedish | gnomisk, aforistisk (arhoristic, sententious). (various references) | |
Thai | เต็มไปด้วยเป็นคำสอน. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | gnomicus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gnomic": gnomical. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gnomic": physiognomic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gnomic": physiognomical, physiognomically. (additional references) | |
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"Gnomic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gnoli, gnom, gnoma, gnomed, gnomin, gnonic, Gomia, Ngami, Ngoma, Nomich, uncomic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gnomic" (pronounced nō"mik) |
| 3 | -m i k | academic, aerodynamic, anemic, atomic, autonomic, bulimic, cataclysmic, ceramic, comic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, diatomic, dynamic, economic, electrodynamic, endemic, endothermic, epidemic, ergonomic, exothermic, formic, gastronomic, gimmick, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, macroeconomic, microeconomic, mimic, monatomic, nonacademic, noneconomic, ophthalmic, organismic, pandemic, panoramic, patronymic, photodynamic, polemic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, socioeconomic, subatomic, systemic, tragicomic, uneconomic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coming. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coign, incog. | |
-2 letters: cion, coin, coni, icon. | |
-3 letters: cig, cog, con, gin, ion, mig, moc, mog, mon, nim, nog, nom. | |
-4 letters: go, in, mi, mo, no, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: coaming, combing, comings, comping, genomic, mocking. | |
+2 letters: becoming, cameoing, caroming, chomping, chroming, clomping, coamings, comaking, combings, comingle, compting, gnomical, gnomonic, incoming, mooching, mouching, myogenic, oncoming, smocking, upcoming. | |
+3 letters: agronomic, becomings, bemocking, cairngorm, carroming, chromings, clamoring, coempting, cognomina, combating, combining, comingled, comingles, commingle, commixing, commoving, communing, commuting, comparing, compering, competing, compiling, complying, composing, computing, consuming, contagium, costuming, egomaniac, ergonomic, geomantic, gynoecium, hegemonic, incomings, magnifico, miscoding, misogynic, mitogenic, mockingly, monogamic, monogenic, morticing, oncomings, recombing, romancing, smockings, smooching, welcoming. | |
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