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adjectiveconsisting of a syllable or syllablesOpposite:
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(of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantitiesOpposite:
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"the syllabic `nl' in `riddle'"(of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllableOpposite:
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"syllabic accent" "syllabic characters each represent a syllable"of or relating to syllables
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"eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing"consisting of or using a syllabary
Definition that contains syllabic
- babylonian the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written
- aramaic an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it
- monosyllabically in a monosyllabic manner
- word stress the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
- devanagari script a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
- nagari script a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
- devanagari a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
- linear b a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C.
- polysyllabically in a polysyllabic manner
- octosyllable a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines