Definitions for acrostics

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acrostics a·cros·tic

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

IPA: /əˈkrɔ stɪk, əˈkrɒs tɪk/

Acrostics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in acrostics (acciorsst).

Definitions for acrostics

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 acrostics

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

Examples for acrostics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.