italic icon definition
Definition of italic. 1  1a : of or relating to a type style with characters that slant upward to the right (as in âthese words are italicâ) â compare romanb : of or relating to a style of slanted cursive handwriting developed in the 15th and 16th centuries. 2  2 capitalized : of or relating to ancient Italy, its peoples, or their Indo-European languages.