ludic
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈluːdɪk/
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lúdico
- Children often engage in ludic activities, such as playing games or pretending to be superheroes.
- ludic aspects
Examples
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The young generation is no longer interested in the sacred content of the traditional celebrations, but only in their ludic aspects.
Academic text (1996) -
In such a ludic context, the heroic concept is evidently unstable.
Academic text (1993) -
Music also serves an important ludic function.
Academic text (2003) -
Gambetshi's followers have turned a beautiful performance into a ludic one.
Academic text (1995) -
Fictional literary narrative is ludic, whether it is illusionist or not.
Academic text (2004) -
However, the work of Ito and colleagues recognizes the ludic, or pleasurable, aspects of community membership rather than the functional ones.
Academic text (2012) -
LittleBigPlanet does, and the latest incarnation, LittleBigPlanet Karting, just got its own trailer highlighting the ludic story of its world.
Blog text (12) -
"The 'strategy of joy,'" Jacoby reflected in 2000, "manifested in musical styles, in forms of presentation, in stage sets, clothes, and makeup: free movement, games with identity, ludic transformation of the environment."
Academic text (2014) -
In this case, it happens with flags, signs that, when seen in the village context, indicate the ludic realm of circuses, pastimes, and the truths of childhood.
Academic text (1995) -
The festival was filled with ludic events, including games, performances, and playful activities for everyone.
Synonyms
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1.6
Full of fun and energy and liking jokes or games
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7.3
Playful and lively, someone enjoys small jokes and games
Antonyms
How Playful
Surface Forms
Morphology
ludic = lud + ic
The root 'lud' is not a standalone English word and the connection to the everyday word 'play' is not obvious to an average B1 learner, so the formation is not transparently interpretable.
Etymology
Ludic comes from the Latin words ludus ('play') and ludere ('to play'). So ludic means 'playful' or 'relating to play', which explains why we use it for playful teaching, art, or children's laughter.