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Found 3 hits - Term: syllabic, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
syllabic \syllab"ic\, syllabical \syllab"ical\, a. gr. ?:
   cf. f. syllabique.
   1. of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic
      accent.
      1913 webster

   2. consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic
      augment. "the syllabic stage of writing." --earle.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
syllabic
     adj 1: of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic
            characters each represent a syllable"
     2: consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters;
        "eskimos of the eastern arctic have a system of syllabic
        writing"
     3: of verse having lines based on number of syllables rather
        than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
        ant: accentual, quantitative
     4: consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a
        syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a
        consonant sound not accompanied in the same syllable by a
        vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominating the
        other vowel sounds in a syllable as being the first vowel
        in a falling diphthong; "the syllabic `l' in `riddle' or
        the syllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced
        `bot-n-y'"; "the syllabic `o' in `oi'" ant: nonsyllabic
     5: of liquids and nasals syn: vocalic ant: consonantal
see also:
accentual quantitative nonsyllabic vocalic consonantal 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
103 moby thesaurus words for "syllabic":
   accented, alphabetic character, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
   apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial,
   broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, cipher,
   close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, device,
   dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, graph,
   grapheme, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial,
   labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, letter,
   lexigraphic character, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monogram,
   monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open,
   oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
   phonemic, phonetic, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, phonic,
   pictographic character, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex,
   rounded, semivowel, sign, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong,
   surd, symbol, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy,
   unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
   voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, writing,
   written character





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