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

3 senses of italic

Sense 1
italic -- (a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right)
       => longhand, running hand, cursive, cursive script -- (rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper)

Sense 2
Italic, Italic language -- (a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative)
       => 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)

Sense 3
italic -- (a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right)
       => font, fount, typeface, face, case -- (a specific size and style of type within a type family)

Similarity of adj italic

2 senses of italic

Sense 1
italic -- (characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters")

Sense 2
Italic -- (of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects")