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monosyllabic |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Monosyllabic \Mon`o*syl*lab"ic\, a. [Cf. F. monosyllabique.] Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as a monosyllabic word a monosyllabic language. -- {Mon`o*syl*lab"ic*al*ly}, adv From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: monosyllabic adj : having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: MONOSYLLABIC, adj Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling The words are commonly Saxon -- that is to say words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on Judibras
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