paragraphic

[ par-uh-graf-ik ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or forming a paragraph.
2. divided into paragraphs.

Other Words From

• par·a·graph·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of paragraphic¹

First recorded in 1780–90; paragraph + -ic

Example Sentences

He dismissed their previous talk with his paragraphic cough.

From Project Gutenberg

Our Sunday-school teaching reminds me sometimes of a daily paper—all cut up into paragraphic articles; and if there is any topic of universal knowledge omitted, it will appear in the evening edition.

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One cannot include his work in a study of contemporary illustration, though it is a pleasure passed over to leave unconsidered drawings that in 'colour,' in effects of winter-weather, of leaf-thrown light and shade amid summer woods and over the green lanes of English country, are delightfully remote from obvious and paragraphic habits of rendering facts.

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Still with all their faults these paragraphic reflections did show forth admirably the wit and unmatured cynicism of the various Junior Common Rooms, did signally flash with all the illusion of an important message, did suggest a potentiality for durable criticism.

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You may think it is no trick to Can the topic militaire, And determinedly stick to Jape and jingle light as air— To be pertly paragraphic And to jollity inclined, In an evenly seraphic State of mind.

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