Definitions for antic

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antic an·tic

Spelling: [an-tik]

IPA: /ˈæn tɪk/

Antic is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in antic (acint).

Definitions for antic

noun

1. Usually, antics. a playful trick or prank; caper. a grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture.
2. Archaic. an actor in a grotesque or ridiculous presentation. a buffoon; clown.
3. Obsolete. a grotesque theatrical presentation; ridiculous interlude. a grotesque or fantastic sculptured figure, as a gargoyle.

adjective

1. ludicrous; funny.
2. fantastic; odd; grotesque:

verb (used without object)

1. Obsolete. to perform antics; caper.

Origin of antic

1520-30; earlier antike, antique Italian antico ancient (Latin antīcus, antīquus; see antique), apparently taken to mean “grotesque,” as used in descriptions of fa

Examples for antic

A sample, a fair sample, of the antic tricks we cut up on the beach of Manatomana.

I had to humor that antic creature to worm his secret from him.

I spoke to her, and she complained about the antic behaviour of the land.

"I'm paid for my body, not for my voice; so let my body play the antic," she muttered, angrily.

From the sublime to the arabesque is but a semitone in his antic mind.

Berlusconi repeated the antic in the afternoon in the lower house of Parliament, this time to jeers from fellow politicians.

It was antic, manic, magical, and mischievous—and thoroughly British.

The novel has the antic pace and madcap humor of a Hollywood-ready screenplay— Meet the Parents meets Garden State or something.

The situation seemed, in antic irony, to be reversing itself.

"I recall one antic, just before you left us—" He broke off to meditate.