Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hellenic

1 sense of hellenic

Sense 1
Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language -- (the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages)
       => Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite -- (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)

Antonyms of adj hellenic

1 of 3 senses of hellenic

Sense 1
classical, classic, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenic -- (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical)

INDIRECT (VIA classical) -> nonclassical -- (not classical)

Similarity of adj hellenic

3 senses of hellenic

Sense 1
classical, classic, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenic -- (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical)
       => classical (vs. nonclassical), classic -- (of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture; "classic Cinese pottery")

Sense 2
Hellenic, Hellenistic, Hellenistical -- (relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization)

Sense 3
Greek, Grecian, Hellenic -- (of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language; "Greek mythology"; "a Grecian robe")

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