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decasyllabic

/dɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk/

decasyllabic adjective: having ten syllables.

Adjective

decasyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Having ten syllables.
    • The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 152
    • The lines are almost uniformly decasyllabic (though the syntax breaks up the iambs early in the sequence), and there are some notable exceptions which mainly cluster toward the end of the final sonnet (one line is a thirteener).1992, Peter Quartermain, “‘Not at All Surprised by Science’: Louis Zukofsky’s First Half of ‘A’ – 9”, in Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge Studies...
  2. Composed of decasyllables.

Noun

decasyllabic (plural decasyllabics)

  1. (plural) A decasyllable.
    • an English sonnet written in decasyllabics

decasyllabic meaning in Tamil

decasyllabic in Tamil

பத்துஅசைகளைக் கொண்ட

Forms of decasyllabic

pluraldecasyllabics

Origin of decasyllabic

From deca- + syllabic.

Words formed from decasyllabic

Questions about decasyllabic

What does decasyllabic mean?
Decasyllabic means having ten syllables.
What is decasyllabic in Tamil?
Decasyllabic in Tamil is பத்துஅசைகளைக் கொண்ட. See Decasyllabic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is decasyllabic?
Decasyllabic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce decasyllabic?
Decasyllabic is pronounced /dɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk/.

Words near decasyllabic in the dictionary

  1. decasualizing
  2. decasulfide
  3. decasulfides
  4. decasulphide
  5. decasulphides
  6. decasyllabic
  7. decasyllabicity
  8. decasyllabics
  9. decasyllable
  10. decasyllables
  11. decasyllabon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decasyllabic (page history and authors); decasyllabic (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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