Word Meaning

italic definition and meaning

a. Relating to Italy or to its people.
a. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
n. An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

Crossword clues for italic

- Inclined letter style
- It takes Al, I see, to produce sloping letter
- Italian dumps an early church style of font
- Slanted (typeface)
- Slanting type
- Sloping print
- Sloping type
- Sloping type seen back in council at inquest
- Typeface with slanting letters