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anapestic

/an-uh-pest/US // ˈæn əˌpɛst //

贬义词,贬低,贬损,贬值

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Prosody.

    • : a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.

  • In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter.

  • Anapestic verse consists of a regular recurrence of two unstressed syllables preceding a stressed syllable, — — /.

  • There is evident a tendency toward the rising verse and the anapestic foot.

  • Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms.