italic

italic is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Relating to Italy or to its people. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Relating to Italy or to its people.
2. adjective. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
3. noun. An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
4. noun. a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
5. noun. a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
6. noun. a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
7. adjective. of or relating to the Italic languages

   "ancient Italic dialects"

8. adjective. characterized by slanting characters

   "italic characters"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in italic:

clitia

Common word forms

italics, italical, italicise, italicize

Words from these letters

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