Words that rhyme with anaplastic

• bombastic 0
  adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
• caustic 0
  adj 1: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic] 2: of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action [syn: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic, mordant] n 1: any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
• drastic 0
  adj 1: forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"
• dynastic 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of a dynasty
• ecclesiastic 0
  adj 1: of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church); "ecclesiastic history" [syn: ecclesiastical, ecclesiastic] n 1: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic]
• elastic 0
  adj 1: capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy; "an elastic band"; "a youthful and elastic walk" [ant: inelastic] 2: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" [syn: elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant] n 1: a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together [syn: rubber band, elastic band, elastic] 2: a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material
• enthusiastic 0
  adj 1: having or showing great excitement and interest; "enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"; "an enthusiastic response"; "was enthusiastic about taking ballet lessons" [ant: unenthusiastic]
• fantastic 0
  adj 1: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque] 2: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 3: fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance" [syn: fantastic, wild] 4: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: fantastic, fantastical] 5: extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"
• gymnastic 0
  adj 1: vigorously active; "an acrobatic dance"; "an athletic child"; "athletic playing"; "gymnastic exercises" [syn: acrobatic, athletic, gymnastic] 2: of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility; "gymnastic horse"
• iconoclastic 0
  adj 1: characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions 2: destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited
• inelastic 0
  adj 1: not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure" [ant: elastic]
• interscholastic 0
  adj 1: used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools [syn: interscholastic, interschool]
• mastic 0
  n 1: an aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes 2: a pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler 3: an evergreen shrub of the Mediterranean region that is cultivated for its resin [syn: mastic, mastic tree, lentisk, Pistacia lentiscus]
• monastic 0
  adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical] n 1: a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: monk, monastic]
• orgiastic 0
  adj 1: used of frenzied sexual activity 2: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic]
• periphrastic 0
  adj 1: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn- out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic) [syn: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious]
• plastic 0
  adj 1: capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay" [syn: fictile, moldable, plastic] 2: capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature" [syn: plastic, pliant] 3: forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience" [syn: formative, shaping, plastic] n 1: generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives 2: a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?" [syn: credit card, charge card, charge plate, plastic]
• rustic 0
  adj 1: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness" [syn: countrified, countryfied, rustic] 2: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated] 3: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: agrestic, rustic] n 1: an unsophisticated country person
• sarcastic 0
  adj 1: expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds [ant: unsarcastic]
• scholastic 0
  adj 1: of or relating to schools; "scholastic year" 2: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy" n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: pedant, bookworm, scholastic] 2: a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
• spastic 0
  adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon"; "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy" 2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child" 3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: convulsive, spasmodic, spastic] n 1: a person suffering from spastic paralysis
• stochastic 0
  adj 1: being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable"; "stochastic processes"
• thermoplastic 0
  adj 1: having the property of softening or fusing when heated and of hardening and becoming rigid again when cooled; "thermoplastic materials can be remelted and cooled time after time without undergoing any appreciable chemical change" [ant: thermoset, thermosetting] n 1: a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled [syn: thermoplastic, thermoplastic resin]
• unenthusiastic 0
  adj 1: not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor; "an unenthusiastic performance by the orchestra"; "unenthusiastic applause" [ant: enthusiastic]
• baltic 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages 2: of or near or on the Baltic Sea; "The Baltic republics" n 1: a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy [syn: Baltic, Baltic Sea] 2: a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto- Indo European [syn: Baltic, Baltic language]
• celtic 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the Celts [syn: Celtic, Gaelic] n 1: a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era [syn: Celtic, Celtic language]
• onomastic 0
  adj 1: of or related to onomastics; "he published a collection of his onomastic essays"
• clastic 0
  adj 1: of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) 2: capable of being taken apart; "the professor had a clastic model of the human brain"
• encomiastic 0
  adj 1: formally expressing praise [syn: encomiastic, eulogistic, panegyric, panegyrical]
• fantastik 0
• nastic 0
• predynastic 0

See also anaplastic definition