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noun

ˈa-tik How to pronounce attic (audio)
Definition of atticnext
as in loft
a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building rented the attic out to a college student

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adjective

as in oratorical

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Recent Examples of attic
Noun
Icicles on the roof don't necessarily mean the attic's insulation is bad. — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Mar. 2025 Traditionally this has taken place in an attic of a special structure known as a fruttaio; today some producers dry their grapes in a large warehouses where giant fans are there to dry the grapes. — Tom Hyland, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
Rochelle Oliver, who starred on Broadway in Lillian Hellman’s Toys in the Attic and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and taught acting at New York’s respected HB Studio since the 1970s, has died. — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024 When not in his room, Green headed upstairs to The Attic restaurant where there’s a specialty gin cocktail called the Dale Cooper. — Partner Content, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for attic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attic
  1. loft
  2. oratorical
  3. declamatory
  4. flowery
  5. grandiose
  6. cultured
  7. florid
  8. tasteful
Noun
  • Additionally, the loft itself will be used mostly for storage and perhaps the occasional visitor, rather than as a main bedroom.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 26 Mar. 2025
  • As the numbers on irons get bigger, the amount of loft increases.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of loft
Adjective
  • Thus enfranchised, Hackman took on Richard Harris’ elegant killer English Bob with gusto, mixing in a bravura oratorical gavotte with ample kicks to the ribs, and summoning the Best Supporting Actor trophy.
    — Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
  • To some of Mojtaba’s supporters, the lack of religious qualifications and oratorical skills may not matter.
    — Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2025
Definition of oratorical
Adjective
  • The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Such would-be scientific treatises in fact functioned more like manifestos, and decisively influenced Eliot and Ezra Pound’s generation to favor a poetics of the objective sensuous image over one of the dramatic declamatory mood.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of declamatory
Adjective
  • Boots in the boudoir Spring/summer 2025 is going to be full of flowery feminine prints and floaty blouses and skirts if the Paris runway shows that end Tuesday are anything to go by.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The album had a flowery psychedelic cover and was widely advertised in New York and California.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
Definition of flowery
Adjective
  • Interestingly, men in relationships with women high in grandiose narcissism reported lower satisfaction, as these women heightened their partners’ pressure to appear perfect.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, travel plans might be grandiose; ditto for ideas related to higher education, publishing, the media, medicine and the law.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of grandiose
Adjective
  • Since these cultured muscles are small and ideally flat, nutrients and oxygen from the medium can easily reach every cell in the growing culture.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The story of carp cultivation stretches back centuries, beginning with the Romans, who first collected and cultured carp from the waters of the Danube River.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of cultured
Adjective
  • Get rid of the sort of florid, baroque way of the writing, which took a year or so.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Still, there’s great friction in this story line, because Bridger and Young’s dialogue is simultaneously so florid and pointed, and because the actors playing the Mormon baddies really gnaw on their villainy.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of florid
Adjective
  • The character and tasteful updates over time complement the original home.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Ballad Sweatshirt This white crewneck sweatshirt draws your eye right to its tasteful Minnie Mouse graphic.
    — Clint Davis, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of tasteful

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