Pronounced: oh-don-tik
-adjective
1. To utilize petty, ostentatious rhetoric
2. inadequate attempt to simplify a complex issue
root: odon (having no rhetorical teeth)
od- a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc. (1840–50; arbitrary name coined by Karl von Reichenbach: Odic Force also called "Od")
-ontic from Gk. ont- , comb. form of on (gen. ontos ) "being," prp. of einai "to be"
antonym: odont (having teeth)
-adjective
1. To utilize petty, ostentatious rhetoric
2. inadequate attempt to simplify a complex issue
root: odon (having no rhetorical teeth)
od- a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc. (1840–50; arbitrary name coined by Karl von Reichenbach: Odic Force also called "Od")
-ontic from Gk. ont- , comb. form of on (gen. ontos ) "being," prp. of einai "to be"
antonym: odont (having teeth)
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