Meanings
- not comparablechemistryDescribing a form of an element that exhibits allotropy.
Graphite and diamond are allotropic forms of carbon.
1 more example
A symphony and a poem may be allotropic forms of the same matter: to use a common simile, there is red phosphorus and there is yellow, but both are phosphorus. Likewise there are different forms of art, but there is only one art.
1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or related to or exhibiting allotropism
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From allo- + -tropic, compare French allotropique.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan al·lotròpic
- al·lotròpicof an element that exhibits allotropy
Chinese Mandarin 同素异形的
- 同素异形的of an element that exhibits allotropy
Finnish allotrooppinen
- allotrooppinenof an element that exhibits allotropy
French allotropique
- allotropiqueof an element that exhibits allotropy
German allotrop, allotropisch
- allotropof an element that exhibits allotropy
- allotropischof an element that exhibits allotropy
Greek αλλοτροπικός
- αλλοτροπικός (allotropikós)of an element that exhibits allotropy
Hungarian allotrop
- allotropof an element that exhibits allotropy
Irish allatrópach
- allatrópachof an element that exhibits allotropy
Italian allotropico
- allotropicoof an element that exhibits allotropy
Polish alotropowy
- alotropowyof an element that exhibits allotropy
Portuguese alotrópico
- alotrópicoof an element that exhibits allotropy
Romanian alotropic
- alotropicof an element that exhibits allotropy
Russian аллотропи́ческий, аллотро́пный
- аллотропи́ческий (allotropíčeskij)of an element that exhibits allotropy
- аллотро́пный (allotrópnyj)of an element that exhibits allotropy
Spanish alotrópico
- alotrópicoof an element that exhibits allotropy
Swedish allotropisk
- allotropiskof an element that exhibits allotropy
Turkish allotropik
- allotropikof an element that exhibits allotropy
Ukrainian алотропічний
- алотропічний (alotropičnyj)of an element that exhibits allotropy
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with allotropic
Cite this entry
allotropic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allotropic
“allotropic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allotropic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “allotropic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/allotropic.
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