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polysyllabic
adjective
(pol-y-syl-lab-ic)
(of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables
Synonyms:
sesquipedalian
,
polysyllabic
adjective
(pol-y-syl-lab-ic)
having or characterized by words of more than three syllables
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polysyllabic
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sesquipedalian
,
syllabic
,
long
,
latinate
,
monosyllabic
,
lexical
,
wordy
,
grammatical
,
colloquial
,
alliterative
,
unaccented
,
onomatopoetic
,
unpoetic
,
adjectival
,
orotund
,
denotative
,
prolix
,
adverbial
,
aphoristic
,
mellifluous
,
syntactical
,
nabokovian
,
prepositional
,
abstruse
,
gnomic
,
slangy
,
hemingwayesque
,
lumpish
,
florid
,
intransitive
,
lexicographical
,
euphonious
,
verbose
,
infelicitous
,
connotative
,
idiomatic
,
oracular
,
terminological
,
polysyllabicity
,
dialectal
,
recondite
,
chaucerian
,
ludic
,
ungrammatical
,
joycean
,
rebarbative
,
dadaist
,
demotic
,
epigrammatic
,
metrical
,
deconstructionist
,
sibilant
,
pointillistic
,
glottal
,
grandiloquent
,
stentorian
,
decipherable
,
bromidic
,
sonorous
,
esoteric
,
schwa
,
poetic
,
exclamatory
,
sesquipedality
,
ineloquent
,
cadenced
,
extemporized
,
philological
,
untranslatable
,
undecipherable
,
adenoidal
,
staccato
,
digressive
,
imagistic
,
etymological
,
longwinded
,
rabelaisian
,
unmelodic
,
overfamiliar
,
phrasal
,
pedantic
,
discursive
,
overdetermined
,
teacherly
,
mozartian
,
hifalutin
,
homiletic
,
pretentious
,
hoariest
,
linguistic
,
sophistic
,
epiphanic
,
contentless
,
nonliteral
,
jamesian
,
juiceless
,
indecipherable
,
highfalutin
,
interrogative
,
nonliterary
,
polysyllabic
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