Synonyms for tic
tɪktic

Princeton's WordNet

1. ticnoun

   a local and habitual twitching especially in the face

Matched Categories

1. • Twitch

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1. ticnoun

   Synonyms:
   twitching, vellication

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1. List of paraphrases for "tic":

   icts, ict

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1. tic

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2. TIC

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How to use tic in a sentence?

1. John McNerney:

   You always know when Danny (D'Angelo) is coming. You hear him first (because of the Tic Tacs in his pocket) and then you smell him (because he uses way too much cologne!)

2. Dan Sullivan:

   Right now, the Russians are playing chess in the Arctic and our Administration still seems to think it’s tic-tac-toe.

3. Carolyn Garver:

   Veterans do really well with equine-assisted activities. Same with at-risk youth. It gives them a lot of self-confidence. It gives autistic children a lot of self-confidence, too, it's also good for people that have motor disorders : cerebral palsy, tic disorders. I think it has a lot of ramifications for many different disabilities.

4. Paul George:

   I thought it was tic-tac, those same contact plays down the stretch in the last three, four minutes weren’t called. I don’t know what is a foul and what isn’t a foul.

5. George Orwell, 1984:

   It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ...