memetic
/məˈmɛtɪk/adjective
memetic is an adjective meaning “Of, being, containing, or pertaining to memes; pertaining to replication of concepts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-M-E-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does memetic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, being, containing, or pertaining to memes; pertaining to replication of concepts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce memetic?
- /məˈmɛtɪk/
- /mɪˈmɛtɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-memetic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of memetic
- more memetic comparative
- most memetic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is memetic?
Memetic appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Memetic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to memes, replication of concepts:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does memetic come from?
From meme + -etic, by analogy with gene → genetic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).