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Showing words for ELLIPSIS using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Ellipsis

ellipsis

7 Letter Words for Ellipsis

illipes, lipless, sillies

6 Letter Words for Ellipsis

illess, illipe, lilies, lisles, pilies, plisse, slipes, speils, spells, spiels, spiles, spills

5 Letter Words for Ellipsis

isles, issei, leiss, liles, lipse, lisle, lisps, pells, pilei, piles, pilis, pills, pleis, plies, pliss, seils, sells, siles, sills, sipes, slipe, slips, speil, spell, spiel, spies, spile, spill, spise

4 Letter Words for Ellipsis

elli, ells, epil, ills, ipil, ipse, isis, isle, isls, leis, leps, less, lies, lile, lipe, lips, lisp, liss, pell, pess, pies, pile, pili, pill, pise, piss, plie, psis, seil, seis, sell, sels, seps, sile, sill, sipe, sips, sise, sisi, slip, spie

3 Letter Words for Ellipsis

eli, ell, els, epi, esp, ess, ile, ill, ipl, ips, ise, isl, lei, lep, les, lie, lip, lis, pel, pes, pie, pil, pis, pli, psi, sei, sel, sep, sie, sil, sip, sis, sle, spl, sps, sse, ssp

Definitions for Ellipsis

[1] Grammar . the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down. the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I've been to Paris, but they haven't.
[2] Printing . a mark or marks as ——, …, or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.
[3] Also called: eclipsis omission of parts of a word or sentence
[4] printing a sequence of three dots (…) indicating an omission in text

Words related to Ellipsis

allegory, allusion, analogy, anticlimax, antithesis, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, metaphor

Words nearby Ellipsis

ellington, ellington, duke, elliot's operation, elliott, ellipse, ellipsis, ellipsograph, ellipsoid, ellipsoid of revolution, ellipsoidal, ellipsoidal joint

Origin of Ellipsis

1560–70; < Latin ellīpsis < Greek élleipsis an omission, equivalent to el- (variant of en- en-2) + leip- (stem of leípein to leave) + -sis -sis

Word origin for Ellipsis

C16: from Latin, from Greek elleipsis omission, from elleipein to leave out, from leipein to leave

Synonyms for Ellipsis

adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking