| Noun | 1. | italic - a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right | |
| 2. | Italic - a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representativeOsco-Umbrian - a group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin Latin - any dialect of the language of ancient Rome | |
| 3. | italic - a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right | |
| Adj. | 1. | italic - characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters" | |
| 2. | Italic - of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects" | |