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sexisyllabic

sexisyllabic adjective: having six syllables; hexasyllabic.

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

Forms of sexisyllabic

alternative formsexasyllabic

Origin of sexisyllabic

From sexi- + syllabic.

Questions about sexisyllabic

What does sexisyllabic mean?
Sexisyllabic means having six syllables; hexasyllabic.
What part of speech is sexisyllabic?
Sexisyllabic is an adjective.

Words near sexisyllabic in the dictionary

  1. sexisms
  2. sexist
  3. sexistic
  4. sexistly
  5. sexists
  6. sexisyllabic
  7. sexisyllable
  8. sexisyllables
  9. sexithiophene
  10. sexithiophenes
  11. sexitubercular

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