Rhythmic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rhythmic \Rhyth"mic\ (-m[i^]k), Rhythmical \Rhyth"mic*al\
     (-m[i^]*kal), a. [Gr. ????: cf. L. rhythmicus, F.
     rhythmique.]
     Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm
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           Day and night
           I worked my rhythmic thought.            --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
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     {Rhythmical accent}. (Mus.) See {Accent}, n., 6
     (c) .
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rhythmic
       adj : recurring with measured regularity; "the rhythmic chiming of
             church bells"- John Galsworthy; "rhythmical prose"
             [syn: {rhythmical}] [ant: {unrhythmical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "rhythmic":
     alternate, antispastic, beating, cadenced, cadent, circling,
     cyclic, dactylic, epochal, even, every other, iambic, in numbers,
     in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, measured, metric, metronomic,
     oscillatory, palpitant, periodical, pitapat, prosodic, pulsatile,
     pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, reciprocal,
     recurrent, recurring, regular, rhythmical, rotary, scanning,
     seasonal, serial, spondaic, staccato, steady, throbbing, trochaic,
     undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling