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Dictionary: syl·lab·ic
(sĭ-lăb'ĭk) pronunciation
adj.
    1. Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
    2. Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
  1. Linguistics. Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle (rĭdPRIMARY_STRESSl), the two syllabic sounds are the (i˘) and the (l).
  2. Of or being a form of verse based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
n. Linguistics
A syllabic sound.

[Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Greek sullabikos, from sullabē, syllable. See syllable.]

syllabically syl·lab'i·cal·ly adv.

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The adjective has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: of or relating to syllables
  Pertains to noun: syllable (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters
  Pertains to noun: syllabary (meaning #1)

Meaning #3: (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
  Antonyms: accentual (meaning #2), quantitative (meaning #3)

Meaning #4: consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; (of a consonant sound) not accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound; (of a vowel sound) dominating the other vowel sounds in a syllable as being the first vowel in a falling diphthong
  Antonym: nonsyllabic (meaning #1)

Meaning #5: (phonology) of liquids and nasals
  Synonym: vocalic


 
 
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