phatic
Meanings
Plural: phatics
Adj
- Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
Noun
- A phatic utterance.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek φατός (phatós, “spoken”) - from φημί (phēmí, “I say”) - + -ic.
Probably formally influenced by emphatic, which predates this term.
Scrabble Score: 13
phatic is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordphatic is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
phatic is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
phatic is a valid Words With Friends word