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nonsyllabic
 
Adjective nonsyllabic has 2 senses
  1. 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); "the nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'"; "the nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'"
    Antonyms: syllabic, disyllabic, monosyllabic, octosyllabic, pentasyllabic, polysyllabic, syllabled
  2. consonantal, nonsyllabic, nonvocalic - of liquids and nasals
nonsubmersible nonsubscribers nonsuch nonsuns nonsupine nonsuppurative nonsurgical nonsweet nonsyllabic nonsymbiotic nonsymmetrical nonsynchronous nonsynthetic nontax nontaxable nontechnical nontelescopic

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