catalectic
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
Types & categories
- line of poetry hypernym
Related & opposite
- catalexis derivation
- catalectic derivation
- metrics domain topic
Sense 2 adjective
(verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot
Related & opposite
- acatalectic antonym
- hypercatalectic antonym
- catalectic derivation
- catalexis derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | catalexis |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | catalectic |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | metrics |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | line of poetry |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | acatalectic |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | hypercatalectic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | catalectic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | catalexis |