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monosyllabic

Syllables: mo·no·syl·la·bicUK/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)sɪˈlabɪk/

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Canada/ˌmɒn.oʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/

monosyllabic adjective: consisting of one syllable.

Adjective

monosyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of one syllable.
    • monosyllabic word
  2. Using monosyllables, speaking in monosyllables; curt.
    • monosyllabic responses
    • Hardy is perfect. He’s physical and monosyllabic.2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2022

Noun

monosyllabic (plural monosyllabics)

  1. A word consisting of one syllable.

monosyllabic meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Arabic

monosyllabic in Tamil

ஓரசை கொண்ட, மிகச் சுறுக்கமான, நறுக்கென

monosyllabic in Urdu

یک رکنی

monosyllabic in Tagalog

consisting of one syllable
sampantig

monosyllabic in Arabic

consisting of one syllable
أُحَادِيّ المَقْطَع ʔuḥādiyy al-maqṭaʕ
More languagesFewer languages
monosyllabic in Vietnamese
đơn âm tiết
monosyllabic in Myanmar
ဧကဝဏ္ဏ eka.wanna.

Antonyms of monosyllabic

Forms of monosyllabic

pluralmonosyllabics

Origin of monosyllabic

Borrowed from Late Latin monosyllabicus, from Latin monosyllabus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μονοσύλλαβος (monosúllabos). By surface analysis, monosyllable + -ic or mono- + syllabic.

Words formed from monosyllabic

Words that rhyme with monosyllabic

Questions about monosyllabic

What does monosyllabic mean?
Monosyllabic means consisting of one syllable.
What is monosyllabic in Tamil?
Monosyllabic in Tamil is ஓரசை கொண்ட, மிகச் சுறுக்கமான, நறுக்கென. See Monosyllabic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is monosyllabic?
Monosyllabic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce monosyllabic?
Monosyllabic is pronounced /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)sɪˈlabɪk/ (UK).

Words near monosyllabic in the dictionary

  1. monosulphites
  2. monosulphuret
  3. monosulphurets
  4. monosumoylation
  5. monosumoylations
  6. monosyllabic
  7. monosyllabical
  8. monosyllabically
  9. monosyllabication
  10. monosyllabicity
  11. monosyllabicization

Source and license

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