metrical foot

Questions about metrical foot

What is another word for metrical foot?

It depends which metrical foot you mean. In the sense “(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm”, the synonyms are foot, metrical unit. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of metrical foot?

WordNet records no antonym for metrical foot. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for metrical foot come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of metrical foot

• Full entry for metrical footAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for metrical footWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.