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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
The fire, which appeared to have been started in the garage, caused extensive damage to the first floor and extended into the attic, the fire department said. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 Yet after the apparent death of Captain Crewe in World War I, Sara’s headmistress confines the now-penniless child in the school’s attic. — Sohini Sarah Pillai, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
Adjective
Additionally, Hershiser’s Legends Attic memorabilia space in Claremont will move some of its stuff to a space located behind the home plate seats. — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 16 Mar. 2026 Declutter Your Basement, Attic, and Garage Mice are most likely to inhabit spaces that don’t get much foot traffic, such as the basement, attic, or garage. — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 7 Feb. 2026 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
  • Extol the poet’s life, but Meyers is revealed to live in an ostentatious loft bought by rich parents.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Also in the house is, of all synthezoids, Ultron (James Spader), Vision’s genocidal nemesis — frenemy would be the better word here — held as a sort of prisoner in a loft space filled with art and television sets.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of loft
Adjective
  • That wasn’t Newsom’s only oratorical slip-up, although the second one says more about the larger Democratic Party than anything else.
    — Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
  • With his height and his oratorical flourishes, Jackson was a charismatic figure who led protests in Greensboro.
    — Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Definition of oratorical
Adjective
  • Indeed, the narrator is resigned to death—if not the declamatory death of her friend in the lecture hall, at least the fact of death happening elsewhere, on the global stage.
    — Maya Binyam, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
  • These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of declamatory
Adjective
  • The MemoMind One’s summaries were particularly strange and vague, with awkward and nonsensically arranged concepts strung together with flowery horoscope-like language.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Her flowery dress was the brightest thing in our corner of the car.
    — Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of flowery
Adjective
  • At the end of the day, and of his essay, Thiel’s grandiose language and project is shown to be a rather ordinary ideological one.
    — David Gibson, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The grandiose panic room where Kate and Hal are locked down after the shooting was filmed in the crypt of a church on the Upper West Side.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of grandiose
Adjective
  • Too obviously the gift of someone trying to seem casually cultured?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • As the war wound down, Olivier was becoming more obsessed with directing, often counting on Leigh as his cultured, measured adviser.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of cultured
Adjective
  • One day, someone came in from a meditation-retreat center in a state of florid psychosis.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Mariachi, tequila, and the florid masculinity of charrería, Mexico's national equestrian sport, all originated in Jalisco, the state for which Guadalajara serves as capital.
    — Michael Snyder, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of florid
Adjective
  • The smoothness of Knock Knock echoes through the rolling mid-tempo grooves of Stiltz’s unshowy arrangements, featuring drifting pedal steel from Theo Stocks and tasteful embellishments from Ana Roxanne on piano and vocals.
    — Harry Thorfinn-George, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The great outdoors The outdoor space of Crawford’s Brentwood home rivaled its tasteful interior.
    — Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of tasteful

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