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immetrical

immetrical adjective: not metrical or rhythmical.

Adjective

immetrical (comparative more immetrical, superlative most immetrical)

  1. Not metrical or rhythmical.
    • French and Italian most immetrical , Their many syllables in harsh collision1611, George Chapman, "To the Reader" (poem attached to Iliad)
    • An alteration here, leaving immetrical a line already so by turning "this letter is for you" into "these letters are for you," for no apparent reason in the text, can be regarded only as one of the changes made for change's sake.1932, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Shakespeare Canon: The origination of "Henry V.", page 127

Forms of immetrical

comparativemore immetrical
superlativemost immetrical

Origin of immetrical

From im- + metrical.

Words formed from immetrical

Questions about immetrical

What does immetrical mean?
Immetrical means not metrical or rhythmical.
What part of speech is immetrical?
Immetrical is an adjective.

Words near immetrical in the dictionary

  1. immesht
  2. immethodic
  3. immethodical
  4. immethodically
  5. immethodicalness
  6. immetrical
  7. immetrically
  8. immew
  9. immewed
  10. immewing
  11. immews

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