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say it: i-LEK-trik
electric is an adjective and noun meaning "using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity". It carries 4 recorded senses.
using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
“electric current”
“electric wiring”
“electrical appliances”
“an electrical storm”
affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
“gave an electric reading of the play”
“the new leader had a galvanic effect on morale”
a car that is powered by electricity
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for electric come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.