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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person from Upper Volta.
2. 2
   a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   of or relating to electricity.
2. 2
   Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta or his work. not-comparable

   "She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset."

3. 3
   Of or pertaining to Burkina Faso, previously known as Upper Volta. not-comparable
4. 4
   producing electricity by chemical action.
5. 5
   Of or pertaining to the Gur languages of Africa, in the Niger-Congo family. not-comparable

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6. 6
   reminiscent of the action of electricity: thrilling, shocking, dramatic. figuratively

   "Around them, the air thrummed with the kind of voltaic wailing to power up the darkest night."

Adjective

1. 1
   pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

battery poweredelectricelectricelectricalelectrifiedelectrifying

Example

More examples

"Around them, the air thrummed with the kind of voltaic wailing to power up the darkest night."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Volta + -ic after Alessandro Volta.

Etymology 2

From Volta + -ic.

Related phrases

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.