TRAIT
What does "TRAIT" mean?
A distinguishing quality or characteristic, especially of a person's nature.
Meanings
- A particular feature of a person's character or behavior. Patience is her most useful trait.
- A genetically or biologically determined characteristic of an organism. Eye color is an inherited trait. technical
Did you know?
- A personality 'trait' is, at root, a pen stroke: it comes from the French 'trait', a drawn line - as if your character were sketched by a few defining strokes.
Word origin
From French 'trait', 'a stroke of the pen, a line, a feature', from Latin 'tractus', 'a drawing out, a line', from 'trahere', 'to draw' - a trait being a distinguishing 'line' of character.
Remember it
A TRAIT is a 'line' drawn on you: it shares the Latin 'drawing' root with trace, track, and tract - the strokes that sketch who you are.
A little poem
One stubborn pen stroke-
the same line in the father,
the son, the grandson.
haiku
Wordplay
- The artist said his best quality was his ability to draw. I said that's a fine trait - quite literally.
What it teaches
A single trait is just one stroke; no one is sketched by a single line, so judge the whole portrait.
Quick facts
What does TRAIT mean?
A distinguishing quality or characteristic, especially of a person's nature.
Is TRAIT a valid word?
Yes — TRAIT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TRAIT?
TRAIT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does TRAIT come from?
From French 'trait', 'a stroke of the pen, a line, a feature', from Latin 'tractus', 'a drawing out, a line', from 'trahere', 'to draw' - a trait being a distinguishing 'line' of character.
What can TRAIT teach us?
A single trait is just one stroke; no one is sketched by a single line, so judge the whole portrait.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.