Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to antic
Participle: anticked
Gerund: anticking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | antic |
| you | antic |
| he;she;it | antics |
| we | antic |
| you | antic |
| they | antic |
Perfect
| I | have anticked |
| you | have anticked |
| he;she;it | has anticked |
| we | have anticked |
| you | have anticked |
| they | have anticked |
Past
| I | anticked |
| you | anticked |
| he;she;it | anticked |
| we | anticked |
| you | anticked |
| they | anticked |
Pluperfect
| I | had anticked |
| you | had anticked |
| he;she;it | had anticked |
| we | had anticked |
| you | had anticked |
| they | had anticked |
Future
| I | will antic |
| you | will antic |
| he;she;it | will antic |
| we | will antic |
| you | will antic |
| they | will antic |
Future Perfect
| I | will have anticked |
| you | will have anticked |
| he;she;it | will have anticked |
| we | will have anticked |
| you | will have anticked |
| they | will have anticked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | antic |
| you | antic |
| he;she;it | antic |
| we | antic |
| you | antic |
| they | antic |
Perfect
| I | have anticked |
| you | have anticked |
| he;she;it | have anticked |
| we | have anticked |
| you | have anticked |
| they | have anticked |
Imperfect
| I | anticked |
| you | anticked |
| he;she;it | anticked |
| we | anticked |
| you | anticked |
| they | anticked |
Pluperfect
| I | had anticked |
| you | had anticked |
| he;she;it | had anticked |
| we | had anticked |
| you | had anticked |
| they | had anticked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would antic |
| you | would antic |
| he;she;it | would antic |
| we | would antic |
| you | would antic |
| they | would antic |
Perfect
| I | would have anticked |
| you | would have anticked |
| he;she;it | would have anticked |
| we | would have anticked |
| you | would have anticked |
| they | would have anticked |
Imperative
| you | antic |
| we | Let's antic |
| you | antic |
Verbs conjugated like 'antic'
bivouac,
critic,
fabric,
frolic,
havoc,
limbec,
mimic,
physic,
picnic,
prognostic,
rollic,
rubric,
traffic,
zinc,
Verbs similar to 'antic'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably from Italian antico (“ancient”), used to describe ancient wall paintings from classical times, from Latin antiquus (“venerable”). See also Italian grottesco (“grotesque”). Doublet of antique.
Sample Sentences
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Jerry no more than cocked a contemptuous quizzical eye at the mainsail anticking above him. He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, but he was careful of the mainsheet blocks, and walked around the traveller instead of over it. [1917 April, Jack London, chapter IV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 54:]
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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. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:]
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Whether one's surroundings were anticked up or not, one often felt one was living in another century at Roque. [1964, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts:]
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Surtees became a friend of Walter Scott and played a very "anticking" joke upon the author. [1982, The Picturesque Tour, page 25:]
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She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements. [1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 70:]