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say it: suh-LAB-ik
syllabic is an adjective meaning "of or relating to syllables". It carries 5 recorded senses.
of or relating to syllables
“syllabic accent”
“syllabic characters each represent a syllable”
consisting of or using a syllabary
“eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing”
(of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
consisting of a syllable or syllables
(of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable
“the syllabic `nl' in `riddle'”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for syllabic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.