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thematic

15 6.0
Relating to a main idea in art, music or writing
  • adjective
  • /θiˈmætɪk/
translation icon : temático
  • The results generated eight thematic trends in the use and meaning of the visual arts.
  • thematic analysis
  • thematic category
  • thematic element

But some people start off with a thematic point of view.

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Examples

  • The concert featured a thematic exploration of love and loss through various musical genres.

  • So the story we tell here is thematic rather than chronological.

    Academic text (1999)
  • But some people start off with a thematic point of view.

  • This includes a whole range of thematic concerns.

  • And then you have the thematic areas that cut across all the projects below.

  • So the next three meetings, as we're saying, are thematic and we're trying to get a good base of understanding about how these things work.

  • Each year we adopt A thematic focus for some of our programming.

  • The children were immediately involved in several warm-up activities related to the thematic material to come.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The transcripts were subjected to thematic content analysis using standard qualitative procedures.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Our first guest couldn't be more true to the storytelling and the thematic nature of New York because she hails from Queens.

Synonyms

motivic
vsthematic
  • Specialized
9.0

Relating to a short musical idea that repeats in a piece

is broader, applying to any subject or theme in art, music, or speech

Antonyms

unthematic
  • Literature
9.1

Not about one clear idea

Compounds

9.7

A test where a person tells stories about pictures to show feelings and thoughts

thematic vowel
  • Specialized
9.9

A vowel after the main part of a word and before endings showing tense or number

How Themed

immersive
15 5.5
thematic
15 6.0
themed
55 3.9
decorated
2.7
plain
50 2.5
themeless
1 7.0

Surface Forms

thematic positive

Morphology

thematic = theme (transparent) = theme + atic

A straightforward adjectival formation from 'theme' with a standard adjectival suffix, so learners who know 'theme' can infer 'relating to a theme'.

Etymology

Thematic comes from the Greek root thema, which originally meant 'a thing put down' and later 'a topic'. The English word theme keeps that idea, so thematic describes something that is 'about' or connected to a main idea.