Definitions for acrostic

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acrostic a·cros·tic

Spelling: [uh-kraw-stik, uh-kros-tik]

IPA: /əˈkrɔ stɪk, əˈkrɒs tɪk/

Acrostic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 350 anagrams from letters in acrostic (acciorst).

Definitions for acrostic

noun

1. a series of lines or verses in which the first, last, or other particular letters when taken in order spell out a word, phrase, etc.

adjective

1. Also, acrostical. of, like, or forming an acrostic.

Origin of acrostic

1580-90; Greek akrostichís, equivalent to akro- acro- + stích(os) stich¹ + -is noun suffix

Examples for acrostic

In an acrostic the beginnings of the lines are arranged in order.

The answer to the acrostic is “mantrap”; the missing rhyme is “mishap.”

Marked progress of thought is not to be looked for in an acrostic psalm.

But then in the hands of Swinburne an acrostic would cease to be artificial.

It is not only the exigencies of the acrostic which determine the order in ver.

But there is no more trace of acrostic structure in x. till ver.

Sense or nonsense, just as you please, so as it shows us what an acrostic is.

I must show you an acrostic that a gentleman—he was a lieutenant in the 53rd—made upon it.

Unlike its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic.

Next is a copy of an acrostic epitaph from Tewkesbury Abbey.