singsong

1. 1.

   uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting

   “their chantlike intoned prayers”

   “a singsong manner of speaking”

   Synonymschantlikeintoned

   Similarrhythmical

Other forms of singsong

plural

singsongs·

past tense

singsonged·

present participle

singsonging·

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 singsong

What does singsong mean?

singsong means "a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in singsong?

singsong has 2 syllables and divides as sing-song under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for singsong?

Close synonyms include singalong, chantlike, intoned. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is singsong a common word?

singsong is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.