syllabic

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Adjective syllabic has 5 senses

syllabic - of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable"
syllabic - consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing"
syllabic - (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
Antonyms: accentual, quantitative
syllabic - consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound not accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominating the other vowel sounds in a syllable (as being the first vowel in a falling diphthong); "the syllabic `l' in `riddle' or the syllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `bot-n-y'"; "the syllabic `o' in `oi'"
Antonyms: nonsyllabic, unsyllabic, unsyllabled
vocalic, syllabic - of liquids and nasals

sylables sylabus sylar sylinder sylla syllabary syllabel syllabi syllabic syllabic script syllabically syllabicate syllabication syllabicity syllabification syllabify syllabii

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