karmic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɑɹmɪk/ (US)
Etymology
From karma + -ic.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to karma.
Raymond Gunt is not a nice person. He might just be, as more than one character in Douglas Coupland’s 14th novel remarks, the Worst. Person. Ever. He’s far-fetchedly horrible. A grotesque. A supernova of bad karmic energy.
2013 September 29, “Book review: Worst. Person. Ever. By Douglas Coupland”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2014:Ken Kesey was one who supported abortion only to save the life of the mother, arguing that society needed to care about everyone, including “the un-dead old [and]^([sic]) the un-born young.” As he put it, “Abortions are a terrible karmic bummer.”
1991, Timothy Miller, quoting Ken Kesey, The hippies and American values, University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 65:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| karmaic | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nonkarmic · karmic debt · karmically · karmic blowback
Translations (18)
ru карми́ческий (of or pertaining to karma) · cs karmický (of or pertaining to karma) · nn karmisk (of or pertaining to karma) · sv karmisk (of or pertaining to karma) · de karmisch (of or pertaining to karma) · es kármico (of or pertaining to karma) · eo karma (of or pertaining to karma) · nb karmisk (of or pertaining to karma) · fr karmique (of or pertaining to karma) · uk кармі́чний (of or pertaining to karma) · ko 업보의 (of or pertaining to karma) · pt cármico (of or pertaining to karma) · tr karmik (of or pertaining to karma) · pt kármico (of or pertaining to karma) · pl karmiczny (of or pertaining to karma) · da karmisk (of or pertaining to karma) · it karmico (of or pertaining to karma) · tr karmasal (of or pertaining to karma)