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nonasyllabic

nonasyllabic adjective: having nine syllables.

Adjective

nonasyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Having nine syllables.
    • Most of the trisyllabic words in nonasyllabic lines are monomorphemic.2004, A. Teeuw, A merry senhor in the Malay world: four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta

Origin of nonasyllabic

From nona- + syllabic.

Questions about nonasyllabic

What does nonasyllabic mean?
Nonasyllabic means having nine syllables.
What part of speech is nonasyllabic?
Nonasyllabic is an adjective.

Words near nonasyllabic in the dictionary

  1. nonastrontium
  2. nonasulfide
  3. nonasulfides
  4. nonasulphide
  5. nonasulphides
  6. nonasyllabic
  7. nonasymptotic
  8. nonasynchronous
  9. nonatavistic
  10. nonatheist
  11. nonatheistic

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