Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being a theme: a scene of thematic importance.
- adj. Linguistics Of, constituting, or relating to the theme of a word: a thematic vowel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or relating to a theme of discourse.
- In music, pertaining to themes or subjects of composition, or consisting of such themes and their development: as, thematic treatment or thematic composition in general. Counterpoint is the technical name for thematic composition of the strictest kind; but many passages in works not contrapuntal as a whole are truly thematic.
- In philology, relating to or belonging to a theme or stem.
- n. That part of logic which treats of themata, or objects of thought.
Wiktionary
- adj. relating to, or having a theme or a topic
- adj. music relating to a melodic subject
- adj. linguistics Of a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection.
- n. A postage stamp that is part of a thematic collection
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See theme, n., 4.
- adj. (Mus.) Of or pertaining to a theme, or subject.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a melodic subject
- adj. relating to or constituting a topic of discourse
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek θεματικός, from θέμα ("theme"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek thematikos, from thema, themat-, theme; see theme. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It seems to me that the main thematic slogan ought to be, "Teamwork: Sometimes, It Works Okay!”
“Because the thematic is so close -- or belongs so well -- to the topic area of my mapping and taxonomy blog, atlast (t), the new galleon trade blog is a child of atlast (t) called atlast (t): The Galleon Trade Edition.”
“The virtual collections are also grouped in thematic collections, for example, there are collections focused on the Free Speech Movement and Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA).”
“Love interests in Spider-Man are not that numerous, and the lesser lights among them served short-term thematic or symbolic roles rather than long-term character roles.”
Thoughts on Joe Quesada’s One More Day Interviews | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
“About 1,700 high school students will arrive this summer for a variety of programs: over 300 will participate in short-term thematic group projects in areas ranging from culture and the arts to youth leadership; 650 students will participate in year-long exchanges during the”
“This year, so-called macro managers have been forced to make short-term wagers because the longer-term thematic trades haven't worked for them, Mark Enman, head of the global-trading team within hedge-fund research at Man Investments in New York, said in a telephone interview.”
“The 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council is set to examine widespread violations of human rights in countries such as Sudan and Somalia, as well as dealing with so-called thematic issues such as torture and discrimination.”
Voice of America: UN Council Goes After Human Rights Abusers
“The ending -oh₂ is specifically used for the indicative mood of so-called thematic verbs ie. stems ending in *-e- .”
“Still, it's a hell of a ride-an integration, to use Mr. Marsalis 'one-word thematic summation, of "high" musical culture and the "low" vernacular, in the best tradition of Copland and Bernstein.”
“In 2005 the program developed a new mission and curriculum that shifted the emphasis to a long-term thematic integrated course of study that would put students on "a quest for knowledge and a path to college. '”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thematic’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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worddom
put words in their place
theca, wisdom, kingdom, freedom, boredom, seldom, martyrdom, abdomen, doom, samhita, duma, dumka and 151 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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MRNegro's Words
fabulous, houndstooth, stiletto, wanderlust, lucent, internecine, terraced, vogue, banal, eidolon, aesthete, aesthetic and 13 more...
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cinders & smoke
lovely words
ruelle, demiurge, auric, entangle, nebulous, ameliorate, confluence, solicitude, elegiac, colloquium, verspertine, sibylline and 7 more...
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