Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to neology or neologists; neological.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to neology; neological.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to,
neologisms .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word neologistic.
Examples
-
Those narratives will flow a lot better without words like neologistic, numismatic, and nanotechnology cluttering things up.
Laurence Hughes: Sanitizing Twain -- to the Nth Degree Laurence Hughes 2011
-
His prose, casually neologistic and making deft use of sci-fi tropes, is bracingly sharp.
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review 2011
-
Those narratives will flow a lot better without words like neologistic, numismatic, and nanotechnology cluttering things up.
Laurence Hughes: Sanitizing Twain -- to the Nth Degree Laurence Hughes 2011
-
All are agreed that he was both a logophile and a bibliophile as attested to by his love of etymology and neologistic wordplay, and the over 10,000 books in his personal library.
Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier) 2010
-
(He reprimanded me for using neologistic Italian-language performance directions but not conjugating the verbs correctly.)
Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
-
Impressively, the word is now ranked number four for new words of 2010 by a group of self-appointed purveyors of the neologistic world.
Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology Bill Chameides 2010
-
(He reprimanded me for using neologistic Italian-language performance directions but not conjugating the verbs correctly.)
Fragende Ode Matthew Guerrieri 2008
-
Impressively, the word is now ranked number four for new words of 2010 by a group of self-appointed purveyors of the neologistic world.
Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology Bill Chameides 2010
-
Though I have had some fun coming up with neologistic verb forms, based on the anglo-saxon tenses for defecate: As in, "Did you tweet?"
Archive 2009-06-01 Steve Perry 2009
-
In fact, I might even be inclined to argue that English is fundamentally a neologistic language.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Against descriptivism and prescriptivism: 2007
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.