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— English words —

• antic adj. Playful, funny, absurd.
• antic adj. (Architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
• antic adj. (Archaic) Grotesque, bizarre.
• antic adj. Obsolete form of antique.
• antic n. (Architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
• antic n. A caricature.
• antic n. (Often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
• antic n. A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
• antic v. (Intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
• antic v. (Obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
• antic v. (Transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
• antic n. (Animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan
  • antic adj. Old.
• Friulian
  • antîc adj. Ancient.
• Old french - Old occitan
  • antic adj. Ancient; very old.
• Romanian
  • antic adj. Ancient.
  • antic n. Ancient.

— English words, defined in French —

• antic n. Farce (blague, action qui a quelque chose de plaisant, de bouffon ou de ridicule).
• antic adj. (Vieilli) Bizarre, étrange.
• antic adj. (Vieilli) Moche, grotesque.
• antic v. (Très rare) Faire des bêtises.

58 English words from 17 English definitions

absurd act action Ancient Animation antic anticipation antics antique Archaic Architecture art before behaviour bizarre brief buffoon caper caricature cause clown exaggerated example figure fool for for␣example form funny gargoyle gesture grotesque incongruous Intransitive jumping look ludicrous make make␣a␣fool␣of mimic obsolete of␣a of␣an often old perform performer Playful plural pose rare representation ridiculous ridiculously squat the Transitive very

12 English words from 4 foreign definitions

action bêtises Bizarre blague chose des Faire Farce grotesque Moche rare ridicule

8 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

bouffon étrange plaisant quelque quelque␣chose qui Très Vieilli

731 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

antick antics antical anti-cap anticar anticat anticer anticke anticks anticky anticly anticop anticor anticow anti-caps anticars anticers antichav antichip anti-chip anticide anti-circ anticity anticize anticked anticker antickly Anticlea Anticlia anticlog anticlot anticoal anticoca anticold anticore anticors anticoup anticous anticrab anticrop anticult anticure anti-cure anticable anticaker anticalin antically anticamel anticanon anticaste +681 words

349 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

cantica cantico mantics canticle canticos canticoy canticum frantick frantics Niantics Quantico quantics all'antica Atlantica Atlantick Atlantics canticles Canticles canticoes canticoys franticly gigantick manticism manticora manticore Nanticoke Nehantics pedantick pedantics phrantick planticle quantical romantica romantick Romantick romantics semantics acanticone aromantics calanticid canticular franticity frantickly gigantical manticisms manticoras manticores Nanticokes nero␣antico pedantical +299 words

149 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

cantic mantic -mantic frantic Niantic quantic aphantic Atlantic dymantic gigantic hugantic marantic Nehantic pedantic phrantic romantic Romantic savantic semantic sonantic Vedantic womantic xerantic aromantic asemantic Brabantic bromantic bullantic geomantic onomantic pageantic reboantic sismantic zoomantic adjuvantic aeromantic apophantic assonantic bacchantic biromantic corybantic elephantic Esperantic pyromantic quadrantic squinantic theomantic ungigantic unpedantic unromantic +99 words

14 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ant Ant ANT -ant an't ant- ant. Ant. a'n't anti anti- tic TIC -tic

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cit cit. ITN TNA

5 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

actin actin' actin- cain't can␣it

56 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

acetin acting actino- actins action Anctil anetic anicut antick antics atonic Cainta cannit cans␣it canthi cantic cantil Cantin castin' Catino cation catkin catlin Catlin catnip cat-nip cat␣nip Cetina Chanti Citian civnat enatic incant infact in␣fact intact in␣tact Itanic lactin mantic -mantic nastic natick Natick natric natsci nautic pancit Tangic Tanice +6 words

42 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

acti aint ain't aniṭ anti anti- -atic Atin cain Cain -cain- Cait cant Cant can't Cant. ca'n't CATI cinA cTnI inca Inca NACI Naic nait NAIT NCIT NCTA NIAC Nica Taic tain Tain Tani T-Can tian Tian tina Tina TINA TINC TNCA

10 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

andic antie anti-g antiq. antis artic -astic attic Attic ontic

3 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

anti anti- -atic

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

anetic

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