adj relating to italy or to its people.
2. italic ·adj applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right;
so called because dedicated to the states of italy by the inventor, aldus manutius, about the year 1500.
3. italic ·noun an italic letter, character, or type (see italic, ·adj, 2.);
often in the plural; as, the italics are the author's. italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, ·etc. also, collectively, italic letters.