topic

topical

Adjective

  1. topical

Origin

From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”).

Forms

topick

Noun

  1. A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
    • A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.
    • stick to the topic
    • an interesting topic of conversation

    Synonyms: ground

  2. A discussion thread.
    • If after the update you still run into bugs or odd behavior, please report them in the appropriate Steam Community thread or the relevant Discord channel/topic. - 2026 February 11, “Hotfix #11”, in Pathologic 3 Events,...
  3. A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
  4. A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
    • In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations. - 2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics, page 9:
  5. An argument or reason.
    • contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon - 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion:
  6. An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
    • Amongst topics or outward medicines none are more precious than baths. - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James...

Forms

topics topick

Synonyms

subject subject area

Derived

bitopic drop the topic intertopic metatopic multitopic off-topic off topic on topic on-topic subtopic supertopic -topic topical topicless topic map topic of conversation topic sentence topicwise topicworthy