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unrhyme

unrhyme noun: a line of verse that does not rhyme.

Noun

unrhyme (plural unrhymes)

  1. A line of verse that does not rhyme.
    • As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes2003, Elizabeth Gregory, The critical response to Marianne Moore

Verb

unrhyme (third-person singular simple present unrhymes, present participle unrhyming, simple past and past participle unrhymed)

  1. To remove the rhyme or expected rhyme from.
    • a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day1938, Ford Madox Ford, The march of literature: from Confucius' day to our own, page 333
    • He half-rhymes "one" and "groan," clearly unrhymes "still" with "days," and seems unconcerned that the second "Shiloh" has no rhyming mate.1978, Richard Sharp, The poet's witness

Forms of unrhyme

Noun
pluralunrhymes
Verb
third-person singular presentunrhymes
present participleunrhyming
past participleunrhymed
pastunrhymed

Origin of unrhyme

From un- + rhyme.

Questions about unrhyme

What does unrhyme mean?
Unrhyme means a line of verse that does not rhyme.
What part of speech is unrhyme?
Unrhyme can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of unrhyme?
The plural of unrhyme is unrhymes.

Words near unrhyme in the dictionary

  1. unrhapsodic
  2. unrhetorical
  3. unrhetorically
  4. unrhotacized
  5. unrhymable
  6. unrhyme
  7. unrhymed
  8. unrhymes
  9. unrhyming
  10. unrhythmic
  11. unrhythmical

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