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Definition of Polysyllabic

1. Adjective. Having or characterized by words of more than three syllables.

2. Adjective. (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables. "Sesquipedalian technical terms"

Definition of Polysyllabic

1. a. Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three syllables.

Definition of Polysyllabic

1. Adjective. (context: of a word) Having more than one syllable; having multiple or many syllables. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of spoken or written language) Characterized by or consisting of words having numerous syllables. ¹

3. Noun. a word having more than one syllable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Polysyllabic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polysyllabic

polysulfonated polysulfone polysulfones polysulphane polysulphanes polysulphide polysulphides polysulphone polysulphones polysulphuret

polysulphurets polysurgeries polysurgery polysurgical polysuspensoid polysyllabic (current term) polysyllabic word polysyllabical polysyllabically polysyllabicism

polysyllabicity polysyllabics polysyllabism polysyllabisms polysyllable polysyllables polysymbrachydactyly polysynaptic polysyndactyly polysyndetic

Literary usage of Polysyllabic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Making Health Communication Programs Work: A Planner's Guide (1993)
"Estimate the square root of the total number of polysyllabic words counted. This is done by finding the nearest perfect square, and taking its square root. ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Language: Comprising Those by J. Torrend (1891)
"Then we must also set aside such as have stems beginning with a vowel. Hence : — I. polysyllabic stems which begin with a consonant. 411. ..."

3. The Morphology of the Hupa Language by Pliny Earle Goddard (1905)
"polysyllabic WITHOUT DESCRIPTIVE MEANING. A considerable number of nouns of two or more syllables, evidently secondary, are not easily analyzed. ..."

4. English Composition by Chester Noyes Greenough, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey (1917)
"polysyllabic Words. — The two vocabularies in the English language — the short Anglo-Saxon words and the many-syllabled, resonant Latin words — can be woven ..."

5. The Barrister: Being Anecdotes of the Late Tom Nolan of the New York Bar by Charles Frederick Stansbury (1902)
"polysyllabic Wrath. SEVERAL years ago a debt of $10 was owing to Mr. Nolan, which, so far as is known, has never been paid. The affair was reported at the ..."

6. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human by Arthur James Johnes (1846)
"... with the Scriptural Narrative, and supported by ancient Indian Accounts. " Ararat" of Scripture not in Armenia. Monosyllabic and polysyllabic Languages. ..."

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