Monosyllabic

Definition: Monosyllabic

Monosyllabic

Adjective

1. Having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable.

Date "monosyllabic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references)

Etymology: Monosyllabic \Mon`o*syl*lab"ic\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression monosyllabique.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Satire	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. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: Monosyllabic

English words defined with "monosyllabic": monosyllabic word, monosyllabically, Monosyllabism ♦ Proclitic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "monosyllabic": discrimination score for speech ♦ monosyllabic ♦ Vote. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Phonetic lexicon of monosyllabic and some disyllabic words, with homophones, arranged according to their phonetic structure (reference) The monosyllabic nouns in modern standard Bulgarian (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Monosyllabic (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. W W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like epixoriambikos. Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured.
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"Monosyllabic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Monosyllabic" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	61	43,149

Expression using "monosyllabic": monosyllabic word. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "monosyllabic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		monosilabik, njërrokësh, njëfjalësh. (various references)

Arabic		‏مقطع آحادي, ‏أحادي (elementary, monocular, single, uni-). (various references)

Bulgarian		едносричен, едносложен. (various references)

Danish		liste med enstavelsesord (monosyllabic word list). (various references)

Dutch		woordenlijst met éénlettergrepige woorden (monosyllabic word list). (various references)

Farsi		یک هجاءی . (various references)

Finnish		yksitavuinen (of one syllable). (various references)

French		monosyllabique. (various references)

German		einsilbig (uncommunicative). (various references)

Greek		μονοσύλλαβοσ, μονολεκτικόσ (of one word). (various references)

Hebrew		ח�" �"ברי. (various references)

Hungarian		egytagos, egy szótagú. (various references)

Indonesian		ekasuku. (various references)

Italian		monosillabo (monosyllable), monosillabico. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		単音節 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た�"お�"せつ. (various references)

Manx		unheeleydagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		onosyllabicmay

Portuguese		monocarril. (various references)

Romanian		monosilabic. (various references)

Russian		односложный (curt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		monosilabičan, jednosložan. (various references)

Spanish		monosilábico. (various references)

Swedish		enstavig. (various references)

Turkish		tek heceli. (various references)

Ukrainian		односкладовий. (various references)

Vietnamese		một âm tiết, đơn âm. (various references)

Welsh		unsill. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "monosyllabic": monosyllabically, monosyllabicities, monosyllabicity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "monosyllabic" (pronounced 'Mon`o*syl*lab"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-s-y"
	-2 letters: symbolical.
	-3 letters: billycans, colonials, monobasic, sonically.
	-4 letters: acyloins, allonyms, balloons, billycan, callboys, coalbins, colonial, laconism, limacons, localism, loyalism, moonsail, scallion, scolioma, sociably, socially, syllabic, symbolic.
	-5 letters: acyloin, albinos, alimony, allonym, alnicos, anosmic, balcony, ballons, balloon, balmily, billons, bionomy, bonacis, callboy, camions, clonism, coalbin, collins, cymbals, cymlins, isonomy, limacon, locoism, malison, maniocs, manlily, masonic, misally.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-s-y"
	+3 letters: monosyllabicity.
	+4 letters: monosyllabically.
	+5 letters: monosyllabicities.
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