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monosyllabic
CIDE DICTIONARY
monosyllabic, a. [Cf. F. monosyllabique.].
Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
monosyllabic, adj.
1 (of a word) having one syllable.
2 (of a person or statement) using or expressed in monosyllables.
1 (of a word) having one syllable.
2 (of a person or statement) using or expressed in monosyllables.
Derivative
monosyllabically adv.
DEVIL DICTIONARY
monosyllabic
adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
The man who writes in Saxon
Is the man to use an ax on
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