auric

1. 1.

   of or relating to or containing or derived from gold

   Synonymsaurous

Other forms of auric

comparative

auricer·

superlative

auricest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about auric

What does auric mean?

auric means "of or relating to or containing or derived from gold".

How many syllables are in auric?

auric has 2 syllables: au-ric. The stress falls on "au".

What is another word for auric?

Close synonyms include aurous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auric a common word?

auric is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.