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sexasyllabic

sexasyllabic is the alternative form of sexisyllabic.

Meaning of sexisyllabic

Adjective

sexisyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Having six syllables; hexasyllabic.
    • If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination

Origin of sexasyllabic

From sexa- + syllabic. Piecewise doublet of hexasyllabic.

Questions about sexasyllabic

What is sexasyllabic the alternative form of?
Sexasyllabic is the alternative form of sexisyllabic.

Words near sexasyllabic in the dictionary

  1. sexangularly
  2. sexannulate
  3. sexaquark
  4. sexaquarks
  5. sexarticulate
  6. sexasyllabic
  7. sexathon
  8. sexathons
  9. sexational
  10. sexationalism
  11. Sexauer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sexasyllabic (page history and authors); sexisyllabic (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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