Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of ships, shipping, sailors, or navigation on a body of water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation: as, nautical skill. Abbreviated nautical
- Synonyms Marine, Naval, etc. See maritime.
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
Etymologies
- Latin nauticus ("of or relating to sailors") (Wiktionary)
- From Latin nauticus, from Greek nautikos, from nautēs, sailor, from naus, ship; see nāu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“[NYT] "By the way, before Cashill hit on his theory, I noted some eerie similarities between Dreams of My Father and the Horatio Hornblower novels of C.S. Forester, which also contain nautical references and are written on a high school level, but I gave up my investigation when I realized that Forrester died in 1966 and probably could not have written Obama's book.”
“Let us not judge Ashbery too quickly … I do find his taste in nautical nonsense quite creative, which leads me to believe there is a enough of a screw loose to warrant further investigation.”
john ashbery | the serious doll « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
“Whilst we're in nautical mode, here's brave and how about this for actually having a dream and then living it?”
“And whereas the cognitive tasks inherent in nautical, geographic, and ethnographic work demanded that one use his rational faculties, trips to Cathay required only that one possess a lively imagination.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
“When the time is up, the number of “knots” fed out are counted to determine speed, thus the term for nautical miles per hour.”
“I dressed myself in nautical rig, and went on deck to see all that I could.”
“The orders transmitted to them (in nautical phrase) are amusingthey are playing an ugly tune, or a pretty one badly "Bid those follows take a reef in" or they suddenly stop "Ask those fellows why they have hove to," says the captain to the steward,”
“People create ship designs for the game Pirates of the Burning Sea, researching in nautical museums, because they love to do it — some of them don’t even play the game; they just like to make ships.”
“They are called nautical shells, and they will explode on the surface of the water instead of in the sky.”
“They're called nautical shells and they'll explode on the surface of the water instead of in the sky.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nautical’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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N
letters starting with n
nadir, naive, narcissist, nascent, natation, natty, nauseate, nautical, nebulous, necromancy, nefarious, negate and 24 more...
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bendachoo's list
idiosyncracy, inspiring, fluttering, smooth, serendipity, froth, electrified, desirous, captivated, disillusioned, nautical, eclectic and 2 more...
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EN - trendy lifestyle words
private, tenacious, vogue, hoard, landscape, extravaganza, besiege, eatery, wrest, refurbish, enticing, breakout and 24 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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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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old faves
ones I already liked
vacuole, organelle, debauchle, voluptuous, spry, cattywampus, obscure, occlude, occult, celtic, voracious, ardently and 133 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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words i love
mahogany, serenity, quell, requiem, parhelion, echo, surfacing, ethereal, melodic, vivid, sirenic, sprightly and 122 more...
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Big Book #2 List
absolution, restitution, contrition, moratorium, nautical, nirvana, pandemonium, perennial, symposium, dialectic, dipsomaniacal, ecumenical and 117 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Warp, Woof, Wimble
My favorite words.
prurient, locution, mondegreen, vaunted, lugubrious, larine, warp, woof, wimble, ineffable, pyknic, sodden and 114 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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lauren_inretrospective's list
words I adore....
ethereal, luminiscent, etiquette, surreal, plumage, feathery, vintage, jubilee, rouge, satin, fathom, height and 101 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nautical.
leaden sionnach: It reminds me of Smithers’ assertion that “women and seamen don't mix.” Sep 29, 2011
ruzuzu I'm a bit disturbed by the iron maiden. Sep 29, 2011
sionnach I wouldn't have expected quite so much beefcake in the visuals for this word. Sep 29, 2011
leaden In case Wordnik is never fixed (which seems more likely every month), see
http://www.wordnik.com/tags/nautical
for the complete list of words tagged “nautical”. Sep 29, 2011