Monosyllabic
[,mɒnə(ʊ)sɪ'læbɪk] or [,mɑnəsɪ'læbɪk]
Definition
(adj.) having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable .
Typist: Mabel--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Composed of words of one syllable for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon—that is to say words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
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Examples
- It was that in which Harry Montague, after a sad, almost monosyllabic scene of parting with Miss Dyas, bade her good-bye, and turned to go. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She talked on, planning village kindnesses, unheeding the silence of her husband and the monosyllabic answers of Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This may be called the Chinese or MONOSYLLABIC group, and it includes Chinese, Burmese, Siamese, and Tibetan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As the distance decreases the echo repeats fewer syllables till it becomes monosyllabic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mrs Lammle made leading remarks to Fledgeby, only requiring monosyllabic replies. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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