Definitions for italics

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italics i·tal·ic

Spelling: [ih-tal-ik, ahy-tal-]

IPA: /ɪˈtæl ɪk, aɪˈtæl-/

Italics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in italics (aciilst).

Definitions for italics

noun

1. Often, italics. italic type.
2. (initial capital letter) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including ancient Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and modern Romance.

adjective

1. designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.:
2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Italy, especially ancient Italy or its tribes.

Origin of italics

1555-65; Latin Italicus Greek Italikós, equivalent to Ital(ía) Italy + -ikos -ic

Examples for italics

The italics are ours: the satisfaction appears to be our contemporary's.

The italics in this and all the following quotations are my own.

I print his orders in italics, and his remarks and explanations in Roman letter.

Vernon, when he got it, was most interested in the erasures here given in italics.

[italics added] The slogan "Get your government off my Medicare" is ludicrous enough.

“The first step is to raise average (not marginal) tax rates on upper-income taxpayers,” [my italics] Hubbard wrote.

He writes (my italics): “The Prime Minister … did no more than wish him well in his bid ...” Why “did no more”?

The italics are Hoberman's, but the words would be shocking in any typeface.

The names of the persons whom they respectively married are in italics.

These have been distinguished from the Saints by printing their names in italics.