syllabic

3 definitions found

syllabic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic
        augment. "The syllabic stage of writing." --Earle.
        [1913 Webster]

syllabic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  syllabic
      adj 1: of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic
             characters each represent a syllable"
      2: consisting of or using a syllabary; "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 [ant: nonsyllabic,
         unsyllabic]
      5: (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable; "the
         syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'" [ant: nonsyllabic]

syllabic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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