from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Having only one syllable.
- adj. Characterized by or consisting of monosyllables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Consisting of one syllable.
- adj. Using monosyllables, speaking in monosyllables; curt.
- n. a word consisting of one syllable
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of one syllable: as, a monosyllabic word.
- Consisting of words of one syllable: as, a monosyllabic verse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable
(Does anyone else get a kick out of the fact that "monosyllabic" is such a polysyllabic word?)
Speaking in monosyllabic 2-3 word posts, he was also the easiest to ignore.
Although Meredith admits that she’s willing to talk to him in short monosyllabic sentences laced with disdain and conempt, Alex expects that according to girl rules she’s obligated to hate him.
Unlike most folks, the Goth dwarf preferred to communicate in short, monosyllabic bursts.
Chinese speak a monosyllabic language, 137; their genius and its limitations, 138, 139; oldest national religion of, 180, 181; their "docenal" and "sexagesimal" system of counting, 230-231.
If we answer in the affirmative, how can we explain coming repeatedly across this sort of writing, "lacu IN ipso" (XII. 56), that is, a monosyllabic preposition placed between a substantive and an adjective or pronoun, a kind of composition found in the poets, but disapproved by the prose-writers, who, if so placing a preposition, used a dissyllable and put the adjective first.
Byronic rhyme, for such a four-word monosyllabic liaison — this unwieldy oronym — yet it is strongly urged upon the ear by the otherwise jolting truncation, syllabic and grammatical both, of the echoic "as we!" [
Chinese belongs to the former class of languages, the "monosyllabic," Turkish to the latter, the
He joked that the hardest part was going from a "monosyllabic" character like Teal'c to playing someone far less stoic.
Why are there five syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?