We found 15 dictionaries that define the word
phatic:
General (13 matching dictionaries)
- phatic: Merriam-Webster
- phatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- phatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- phatic: Collins English Dictionary
- phatic: Wiktionary
- phatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- phatic: Infoplease Dictionary
- phatic: Dictionary.com
- Phatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- phatic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
- phatic: TheFreeDictionary.com
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- phatic: A Word A Day
- phatic: Wordcraft Dictionary
(Note: See
phatically as well.)
▸ adjective: (linguistics) Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
▸ noun: (linguistics) A phatic utterance.
plerematic,
homiletical,
lingual,
phonetic,
empractical,
tonguely,
amicitial,
paralinguistic,
phonal,
intersocial,
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