bacchantic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler

Questions about bacchantic

What does bacchantic mean?

bacchantic means "of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler".

How many syllables are in bacchantic?

bacchantic has 3 syllables and divides as bac-chan-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bacchantic a common word?

bacchantic 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.