Syllabic

3 definitions found

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

  Syllabic \Syl*lab"ic\, Syllabical \Syl*lab"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?:
     cf. F. syllabique.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic
        accent.
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     2. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic
        augment. "The syllabic stage of writing." --Earle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  syllabic
       adj 1: of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic
              characters each represent a syllable"
       2: consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters;
          "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic
          writing"
       3: (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather
          than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
          [ant: {accentual}, {quantitative}]
       4: consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a
          syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a
          consonant sound not accompanied in the same syllable by a
          vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominating the
          other vowel sounds in a syllable (as being the first vowel
          in a falling diphthong); "the syllabic `l' in `riddle' or
          the syllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced
          `bot-n-y'"; "the syllabic `o' in `oi'" [ant: {nonsyllabic}]
       5: of liquids and nasals [syn: {vocalic}] [ant: {consonantal}]

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

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "syllabic":
     accented, alphabetic character, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
     apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial,
     broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, cipher,
     close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, device,
     dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, graph,
     grapheme, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial,
     labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, letter,
     lexigraphic character, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monogram,
     monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open,
     oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
     phonemic, phonetic, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, phonic,
     pictographic character, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex,
     rounded, semivowel, sign, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong,
     surd, symbol, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy,
     unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
     voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, writing,
     written character