acroamatic

adjective

ac·​ro·​a·​mat·​ic

¦a-krō-ə-¦ma-tik

variants or less commonly acroamatical

¦a-krō-ə-¦ma-tə-kəl

: told orally to chosen disciples only : esoteric

Word History

Etymology

Greek akroamatikos, from akroamat-, akroama + -ikos -ic

First Known Use

1635, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for acroamatic

• adiabatic
• aristocratic
• asymptomatic
• axiomatic
• diagrammatic
• diaphragmatic
• electrostatic
• endolymphatic
• epigrammatic
• homeostatic
• idiomatic
• magnetostatic