Meanings
adjectiveosmotic (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to, or powered by, osmosis.
1 more example
We saw them waking, we heard them sleeping, we sensed them dreaming, we were permeated completely with the strange Gray Myth of the West and the weird dark Myth of the East when morning came. All my actions since then have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience.
1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3
Translations
Arabic أُسْمُوزِيّ, أُسْمُوزِيَّة
- أُسْمُوزِيّ (ʔusmōziyy, ʔusmūziyy)of or relating to osmosis
- أُسْمُوزِيَّة (ʔusmōziyya, ʔusmūziyya)of or relating to osmosis
Catalan osmòtic
- osmòticof or relating to osmosis
Chinese Mandarin 滲透的 /渗透的
- 滲透的 /渗透的 (shèntòu de)of or relating to osmosis
Czech osmotický
- osmotickýof or relating to osmosis
Finnish osmoottinen
- osmoottinenof or relating to osmosis
French osmotique
- osmotiqueof or relating to osmosis
Greek ωσμωτικός
- ωσμωτικός (osmotikós)of or relating to osmosis
Hungarian ozmotikus
- ozmotikusof or relating to osmosis
Irish osmóiseach
- osmóiseachof or relating to osmosis
Italian osmotico
- osmoticoof or relating to osmosis
Norwegian Bokmål osmotisk
- osmotiskof or relating to osmosis
Polish osmotyczny
- osmotycznyof or relating to osmosis
Portuguese osmótico
- osmóticoof or relating to osmosis
Russian осмоти́ческий
- осмоти́ческий (osmotíčeskij)of or relating to osmosis
Spanish osmótico
- osmóticoof or relating to osmosis
Swedish osmotisk
- osmotiskof or relating to osmosis
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with osmotic
eroticexoticaquaticantibioticchaoticasymptoticnarcotichypnoticidioticneuroticbioticsymbioticamnioticprobioticsemioticdespoticoticquixoticsclerotichomoeroticheterotichomeoticautoeroticNilotic
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
osmotic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/osmotic
MLA
“osmotic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/osmotic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “osmotic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/osmotic.
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