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anapaestic

anapaestic adjective: british standard spelling of anapestic.

Adjective

anapaestic (not comparable)

  1. British standard spelling of anapestic.
    • The public has referred the question to Time: the procedure of this great king I venture to describe, from precedents, by an adaptation of some smart anapaestic tetrameters--your anapaest is the foot for satire to halt on, both in Greek and English--which I read about twenty years ago, and with the...1872, Augustus de Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)

Noun

anapaestic (plural anapaestics)

  1. British standard spelling of anapestic.

Forms of anapaestic

pluralanapaestics

Origin of anapaestic

From Latin anapaesticus. By surface analysis, anapaest + -ic.

Questions about anapaestic

What does anapaestic mean?
Anapaestic means british standard spelling of anapestic.
What part of speech is anapaestic?
Anapaestic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anapaestic in the dictionary

  1. Ananyā
  2. Anao
  3. anaortic
  4. Anapa
  5. anapaest
  6. anapaestic
  7. anapaestical
  8. anapaestically
  9. anapaestics
  10. anapaests
  11. anapaite

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