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anapestenUK
an·a·pest also an·a·paest A0280600 (ăn′ə-pĕst′)n.1. A metrical foot composed of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented one, as in the word seventeen.2. A metrical foot in quantitative verse composed of two short syllables followed by one long one.
[Latin anapaestus, from Greek anapaistos : ana-, ana- + paiein, pais-, to strike (so called because an anapest is a reversed dactyl); see pau- in Indo-European roots.]
an′a·pes′tic adj.an•a•pest or an•a•paest (ˈæn əˌpɛst)
n. a trisyllabic metrical foot whose syllables are short, short, long in quantitative meter and unstressed, unstressed, stressed in accentual meter. [1580–90; < Latin anapaestus < Greek anápaistos struck back, reversed (as compared with a dactyl)] an`a•pes′tic, adj. an`a•pes′ti•cal•ly, adv. anapesta foot of three syllables, the first two short or unstressed, the third long or stressed. — anapestic, adj.See also: VerseanapestA metrical foot with three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | anapest - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllablesanapaestmetrical foot, metrical unit, foot - (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
TranslationsanapestenUK
Synonyms for anapestnoun a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllablesSynonymsRelated Words- metrical foot
- metrical unit
- foot
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