songlike

Questions about songlike

What does songlike mean?

songlike means "having a melody (as distinguished from recitative)".

How many syllables are in songlike?

songlike has 2 syllables and divides as son-glike 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 songlike?

Close synonyms include ariose. 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 songlike a common word?

songlike is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for songlike come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.