Agonic

Quick meaning: Agonic is an adjective meaning (geometry) Lacking an angle.

Meaning

(geometry) Lacking an angle.

More Meanings

1. (cartography, navigation) Having a magnetic deviation of zero.
2. Synonym of agonal.
3. Synonym of agonic line.
4. Characterized by agony.
5. (psychology) Of a mode of social interaction based on threats, displays of power, or inducements of anxiety.
6. (medicine, obsolete) Occurring shortly before death; agonal.

Example Sentences

Eagerly following the convention of crick-crack stories, his audience, entranced by Solibo's words and the rhythmic sound of the gwo-ka, duly responds Patat'si to Solibo's agonic cry.

There are two lines on the earth's surface which have been called agonic lines, upon which there is no declination; and where, therefore, the needle is directed along the terrestrial meridian.

By cultivating his own reason, the pupil could stand back from the agonic scenes in Hades and decide the merits of the case after [François] Fénelon's artifice had absorbed him passionately in the dialogue: […]

Thus, the opening citation, the eleventh section of The Case of Wagner, the passage which perhaps is the zenith of [Friedrich] Nietzsche's irony, is succeeded by the brief agonic cry of the twelfth section: […]

Word Forms

• agonics

Synonyms for agonic

Depending on context, synonyms include agonal.

Antonyms for agonic

Common opposites include hedonic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include azygetic, anangular, anisotomic, ungeometric, unoriented, nongeometric.

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