italic

italic has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• a.. Relating to Italy or to its people.
• a.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
• n.. a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
• n.. a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
• a.. of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects"
• a.. characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"