Historic

Quick meaning: Historic is an adjective meaning Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

Meaning

Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

More Meanings

1. Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
2. (now uncommon) Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
3. (grammar) Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
4. (obsolete) A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
5. (obsolete) A historian.

Example Sentences

A historic opportunity

The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.

The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.

Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.

Word Forms

• historick
• historique
• historics

Synonyms for historic

Depending on context, synonyms include important, notable, significant, landmark, momentous, groundbreaking.

Antonyms for historic

Common opposites include unhistoric.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include important, historical, past, epochal, epoch-making, ground-breaking.

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