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syllabic

DEFINITIONS OF: syllabic

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adj of or relating to syllables

syllabic accent”
syllabic characters each represent a syllable”

adj consisting of a syllable or syllables

Synonyms
disyllabic
having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables
monosyllabic
having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable
octosyllabic
having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables
pentasyllabic
having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables
polysyllabic
having or characterized by words of more than three syllables
decasyllabic
having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables
syllabled
pronounced in syllables
Antonyms:
nonsyllabic, unsyllabic
not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
unsyllabled
not articulated in syllables
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adj consisting of or using a syllabary

“eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing”

adj (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable

“the syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'”
Antonyms:
nonsyllabic
(of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable

adj (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities

Antonyms:
accentual
(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity
quantitative
(of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables
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