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odic

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈəʊdɪk/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈoʊdɪk/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒdɪk/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈɑdɪk/
  • rhymes with -ɒdɪk

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of or pertaining to odes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1964, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov (translator and author of comments), Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, Both the French odic stanza and the EO stanza are related to the sonnet.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Synonym of odylic (“of or pertaining to the od or odyle (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”)”)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Topics: pseudoscience

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: odylic

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From ode + -ic.

From od + -ic, modelled after German odisch.