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ïambic

ïambic is the rare spelling of iambic.

Meaning of iambic

Adjective

iambic (comparative more iambic, superlative most iambic)

  1. Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed–stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance.
    • [J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic, there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be more iambic than it is trochaic.1908, Frank Gilbert Bruner, The Hearing of Primitive Peoples, page 17

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Forms of ïambic

comparativemore ïambic
superlativemost ïambic

Questions about ïambic

What is ïambic the rare spelling of?
Ïambic is the rare spelling of iambic.

Words near ïambic in the dictionary

  1. Île de Ré
  2. Île Saint Jean
  3. Île-de-France
  4. Întregalde
  5. Îrân
  6. ïambic
  7. ð
  8. ñame
  9. ñames
  10. Ñeembucú
  11. Ñemby

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ïambic (page history and authors); iambic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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