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polysyllabic

/pol-ee-si-lab-ik/US // ˌpɒl i sɪˈlæb ɪk //UK // (ˌpɒlɪsɪˈlæbɪk) //

多音节,多音节的,多音字,多音阶

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.
    • : characterized by such words, as a language, piece of writing, etc.

Examples

  • They are Episcopalians or Presbyterians or some other correspondingly polysyllabic thing, as the case may be.

  • Hence the polysyllabic, and the descriptive character of the language, so composite in its aspect and in its forms.

  • The first difference between Chinese and Japanese is that the former is monosyllabic, whilst the latter is polysyllabic.

  • One of the most obvious defects of this school is excessive attachment to polysyllabic terms.

  • To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer?