Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marking a distinction; distinguishing.
- adj. Able to discriminate or distinguish: a mind of great diacritical power.
- adj. Serving as a diacritic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to distinguish; distinguishing; distinctive: as, a diacritical mark, point, or sign.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of distinguishing or of making a distinction.
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of distinguishing
Examples
“First of all, I apologize that I do not know how to make my computer put the diacritical markings on the Spanish words.”
“Errors and omissions in Greek diacritical marks have been silently corrected.”
“In the pronunciation guide you will see some strange characters called diacritical marks above or below a letter to modify the way a word is pronounced.”
“Jay's theory, and that of a couple other scholars, is that, in fact, Jeffer -- th -- those -- those marks are kind of diacritical accents to indicate how the thing should be read aloud.”
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
“This was the edit, BTW, where the printer had lost every letter that had a diacritical on it.”
“Not since Stør has a diacritical mark been so thoroughly ignored.”
“Aside from being pretentious, diacritical marks slow down typing and type setting, and reduce productivity.”
“I am much better with diacritical than with English grammar, anyway.”
“It will not be until 2012 that Facebook supports the full range of diacritical marks and international characters that let the other 5.5 billion residents of Earth use their name as a username, but this fact will go unreported.”
“Bill, try the following to allow your computer to make "foreign" diacritical marks in any document.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘diacritical’.
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Typographic Terms
macron, happy, discombobulated, minuscule, grapheme, grotesque, marginalia, diacritical, circumflex, boustrophedon, allograph, analphabetic and 7 more...
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To a point
to the point
neb, nib, cusp, dot, betoken, nadir, bespeak, eutectic, punctilio, fulcrum, stretch a point, make a point and 69 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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adj. + adv.
vainglorious, lanuginous, altiloquent, ambisextrous, desiderative, flothery, liquescent, logoed, autotelic, tropology, erotogenic, crocky and 108 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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I Like the Sound of That
Cool words
apoplexy, theriomorphic, therianthropic, folksonomy, hoochie coochie, noxzema, steeplechase, dumbwaiter, faute de mieux, cathode, okeydokey, protocarnivorous and 90 more...
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GRE
abase, abjure, abnegate, abrogate, abscond, acidulous, acrimonious, admonish, adumbrate, adventitious, ambagious, anathema and 344 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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Freedom
ipseity, ataxia, cognoscible, poikilotherm, seity, cerulean, thrasonical, diacritical, pogonip, armigerous, nyctalopia, incarnadine and 1 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Grecian vocables
phallomorphic, photogenic, diaphanous, autochthonous, thaumaturgy, diacritical, logorrhea, ischemia, hagiography, metonymy, apostrophe, prognosticate and 8 more...
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Diplomatic Language
aide-memoire, resolution, compromise, diplomatics, genteel, decorum, misspeak, proviso, arab, savoir faire, lacunae, diacritical and 1 more...
Tweets
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jeffazi capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel
Oct 31, 2007