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UK
/sɪlˈæbɪk/
]
[ US /səˈɫæbɪk/ ]
[ US /səˈɫæbɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- consisting of a syllable or syllables
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consisting of or using a syllabary
eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing - (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
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of or relating to syllables
syllabic characters each represent a syllable
syllabic accent -
(of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable
the syllabic `nl' in `riddle'
How To Use syllabic In A Sentence
- The Cree syllabics on the glacial till granite boulder base say: ‘I am the big bear.’
- As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond polysyllabic name-calling.
- He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
- It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
- the syllabic `nl' in `riddle'
- Schiff's forms depend (like Marianne Moore's) on interlocking enjambments, on syllabics, and on baroque grammar, or else (unlike Moore's) on dense repetitions derived from Provençal forms.
- The reason is that some of these disyllabic prepositions are used as adverbs, and, when separated from their nouns, give one the impression that they are used as adverbs. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
- If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables. Archive 2007-08-01
- My only cavil about Aden Gillett's neurotically suave Charles is that he sometimes puts emotion before diction so that you lose the full richness of his past relationship with the vividly polysyllabic Mrs Winthrop-Llewellyn.
- She is a scholar specializing in the syllabic script created by women in Jiangshui, Hunan.
