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Definition of polysyllable in English: polysyllablenoun ˈpɒlɪsɪləb(ə)l A polysyllabic word. Example sentencesExamples - Gary Sauer-Thompson asks about ‘Anzacs, regionalism and national identity’, with powerful illustrations to break up his challenging polysyllables.
- Their choice of words is correspondingly simple, lacking the tension between polysyllables and monosyllables observed in the stanzas from ‘The Triumph of Time’.
- Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
- The Daily Mail, high on moral tone, low on polysyllables?
- In general, the contrast of monosyllables and polysyllables (suspended in the five-word line eight) creates a strong balance.
- Lawyers are notorious for lawyer-speak; my own alternate profession, medicine, has a weakness for Latin polysyllables, forever rechristening diseases and body parts for which simple English words already exist.
- A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
- In the background I overhear Tom and Trisha exchanging a conversation in melodious polysyllables.
- The latest finding is that the SMS generation is unable to communicate in polysyllables or even in complete sentences.
- So far as I know, this particular Finnish polysyllable never made it into any of Tolkien's languages.
- For all their - almost - excess of expression, the lines are cadenced and paid out in a sort of listening rhythm, a very personal, measured gather and tumble of polysyllables, after the unhearing jack-hammer blast of the early poems.
Definition of polysyllable in US English: polysyllablenoun A polysyllabic word. Example sentencesExamples - In general, the contrast of monosyllables and polysyllables (suspended in the five-word line eight) creates a strong balance.
- In the background I overhear Tom and Trisha exchanging a conversation in melodious polysyllables.
- Lawyers are notorious for lawyer-speak; my own alternate profession, medicine, has a weakness for Latin polysyllables, forever rechristening diseases and body parts for which simple English words already exist.
- Gary Sauer-Thompson asks about ‘Anzacs, regionalism and national identity’, with powerful illustrations to break up his challenging polysyllables.
- For all their - almost - excess of expression, the lines are cadenced and paid out in a sort of listening rhythm, a very personal, measured gather and tumble of polysyllables, after the unhearing jack-hammer blast of the early poems.
- The latest finding is that the SMS generation is unable to communicate in polysyllables or even in complete sentences.
- A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
- The Daily Mail, high on moral tone, low on polysyllables?
- Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
- Their choice of words is correspondingly simple, lacking the tension between polysyllables and monosyllables observed in the stanzas from ‘The Triumph of Time’.
- So far as I know, this particular Finnish polysyllable never made it into any of Tolkien's languages.
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