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Meet a word : Pianistic
Pianistic : adjective
Meaning
of, relating to, or characteristic of the piano
skilled in or well adapted to piano playing
skilled in or well adapted to piano playing
Example Sentence
Pianist Yuja Wang performed as if she were claiming ownership of some of Prokofiev's pianistic ideas. Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee
Did you know
The origin of "pianistic" won’t surprise anyone — it’s ultimately from "piano," of course. But the "-istic” suffix is less than ubiquitous and bears some attention. It is used from time to time to create adjectives that correspond to nouns ending primarily in "-ism" or "-ist." (In this case, both "pianism" and "pianist" outdate "pianistic," although only by a few years.) The pedigree of "-istic" isn’t too surprising; etymologists report that it comes from Middle French ("-istique"), Latin ("-isticus"), and ultimately Greek ("-istikos"). As with words formed from the suffix "-ic," words ending in "-istic" can sometimes find life as nouns — for example, "autistic" and characteristic