hypercatalectic

1. 1.

   (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot

   Broaderline of poetry

   prosody

1. 1.

   (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot

   Antonymsacatalecticcatalectic

Other forms of hypercatalectic

plural

hypercatalectics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypercatalectic

What does hypercatalectic mean?

hypercatalectic means "(prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hypercatalectic?

hypercatalectic has 6 syllables: hy-per-ca-ta-lec-tic. The stress falls on "lec".

What is the opposite of hypercatalectic?

The recorded antonyms are acatalectic, catalectic.

Is hypercatalectic a common word?

hypercatalectic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.