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iambick

iambick is the obsolete form 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 iambick

Adjective
comparativemore iambick
superlativemost iambick
Noun
pluraliambicks

Questions about iambick

What is iambick the obsolete form of?
Iambick is the obsolete form of iambic.

Words near iambick in the dictionary

  1. iambic shortening
  2. iambic shortenings
  3. iambic tetrameter
  4. iambical
  5. iambically
  6. iambick
  7. iambicks
  8. iambics
  9. iambist
  10. iambists
  11. iambisyllabic

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