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disyllabic

/dahy-si-lab-ik, dis-i-/US // ˌdaɪ sɪˈlæb ɪk, ˌdɪs ɪ- //

双音节,双音节的,双音节词,二音节

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : consisting of or pertaining to two syllables.

Examples

  • The third is mono-rhymed throughout, the lines being disyllabic with licence to extend.

  • The loud, musical, disyllabic call of the male is also very characteristic.

  • It must be admitted that the disyllabic words are not wholly constant to a principle.

  • These words agree in being disyllabic, but otherwise they are a tiresome and quarrelsome people.

  • Disyllabic or feminine caesura, two kinds of which are to be distinguished, viz.