pycnic

Meaning of pycnic

adjective

relating to or denoting a stocky physique with a rounded body and head, thickset trunk, and a tendency to fat.

1920s: from Greek puknos ‘thick’ + -ic. The word was first used by the German psychiatrist, Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964), in his tripartite classification of human types (the other two being asthenic and athletic ).

Information about pycnic

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of pycnic

py-c-nic

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 6 chars.
  • pycnic is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with pycnic

picnic, isopycnic

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