English adjective: unsyllabic | |||
| 1. | unsyllabic not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong) | ||
| Samples | The nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'. The nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'. | ||
| Synonyms | nonsyllabic | ||
| Similar | unsyllabled | ||
| Antonyms | syllabic | ||