Antic vs Exotic - What's the difference?
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(architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.
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Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
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(architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
A caricature.
(often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.
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A grotesque performer or clown.
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A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
To perform antics.
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(obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
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(rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 70:
To make appear like a buffoon.
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Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
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Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
(physics) Any exotic particle.
As adjectives the difference between antic and exotic
is that antic is ancient while exotic is exotic.antic
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Alternative forms
* antickAdjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
- I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few
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- Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!
Verb
- Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.
- She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.
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References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 * *Anagrams
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exotic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
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Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Derived terms
* exotically * exoticness * exotic atom * exotic baryon * exotic cheroot * exotic dancer * exotic sphereNoun
(en noun)- Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics .
