polysyllabic
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definition
adjective
A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
(of a word) having more than one syllable.
translation of 'polysyllabic'
adjective
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example
Moreover, as noted in section 5.2.1, there is a marked tendency for 'polysyllabic' words to commence with a stressed syllable.
It's one less 'polysyllabic' name for me to remember.
The dancers followed Nijinsky's count, too… and as Russian numbers above ten are 'polysyllabic' - eighteen, for example, vosemnadsat - in the fast tempo movements neither he nor they could keep up.
As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond 'polysyllabic' name-calling.
Both monosyllabic and 'polysyllabic' words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
That's a 'polysyllabic' euphemism for a one party state.
That must have been one hell of a 'polysyllabic' conversation.
Greek has a 'polysyllabic' vocabulary and it is often easier to communicate using something approximating to English - something that drives defenders of the Greek language wild with indignation.
Surely this precocious, 'polysyllabic' facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development.
We should all know to avoid 'polysyllabic' jargon.
What we really need is a small, elegant phone that makes typing real, 'polysyllabic' words fast and easy.
There is no other pathway to empowerment, regeneration, capacity-building, participation, and all the other 'polysyllabic' words in the jargon of a development, which serves its practitioners rather than its beneficiaries.
I present a new breed of cultural critic, unleashing a fresh brand of 'polysyllabic' pontification.
Mark Twain scores lower than Reader's Digest in one calculation, because, I'm guessing, he likes to insert periods, spices things up with some very short sentences, and edits out stuffy 'polysyllabic' words.
Whereas in New England, with Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenues and plenty of Connecticut Avenues in other places, the 'polysyllabic' names cry out for shortening.
He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the 'polysyllabic' circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
The piece begins with an unusual take on what H.W. Fowler called 'polysyllabic' humour, ‘electrocardiogram’ and ‘phantasmagoria’ appearing in lieu of swear words.
Then there is the way senators speak - at length, often alone in the august hall but for a C-Span camera, with bonus points for detailed digressions and 'polysyllabic' words.
With 26 letters to choose from, why do we keep fixing upon the only letter in the English alphabet with a 'polysyllabic' name?
And there's that love of Latin, obscure and 'polysyllabic' words.
The authors of Passionate Uncertainty rarely pass up an opportunity to use ten words when two would suffice, 'polysyllabic' words when simple ones would do, and jargon-filled blather when clarity is called for.
Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is 'polysyllabic' ; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
They cling to 'polysyllabic' professors who find clever ways to say the same dumb things over and over again.
As they continue to develop, children learn to segment 'polysyllabic' words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
Here, alas, an ink-stained wretch fell behind in his 'polysyllabic' note-taking.
I for one would love to see those 'polysyllabic' place names, like Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch, rendered in Cyrillic.
It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely 'polysyllabic' .
Some children, however, have problems with 'polysyllabic' words, and so they need explicit teaching, coupled with broad-based reading experiences.
No more biblish, no more tiresome 'polysyllabic' nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings.
At least half of the stuff on the tiny screen made no sense at all, just a lot of high tech 'polysyllabic' gobbledygook that was real impressive but could've been Greek for all she knew.
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