rhythmic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: rhyth=mic

CIDE DICTIONARY

rhythmic, a. [Gr. : cf. L. rhythmicus, F. rhythmique.].

 Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm  [1913 Webster]
"Day and night
I worked my rhythmic thought."  [1913 Webster]

Rhythmical accent. (Mus.) See Accent, n., 6 (c).

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rhythmic, adj. (also rhythmical)
1 relating to or characterized by rhythm.
2 regularly occurring.

Derivative

rhythmically adv.

Etymology

F rhythmique or L rhythmicus (as RHYTHM)

THESAURUS

rhythmic

alternate, antispastic, beating, cadenced, cadent, circling, cyclic, dactylic, epochal, even, every other, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, palpitant, periodical, pitapat, prosodic, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, regular, rhythmical, rotary, scanning, seasonal, serial, spondaic, staccato, steady, throbbing, trochaic, undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling