apostrophic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒfɪk

Adjective

apostrophic

1. Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
   • Byron, in a letter to Mr. Murray written from Ravenna, 7 June 1820:

     Mrs. Hemans is a poet also, but too stiltified and apostrophic, […]

   • 1971, John Theodore Braun, The Apostrophic Gesture, page 22:

     The approach itself is apostrophic; or, if a more canonical term is required, it is phenomenological.

2. Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').