nonsyllabic
adjective
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 adjective
not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
the nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'
Related & opposite
- syllabic antonym
- unsyllabled similar to
Sense 2 adjective
(of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable
initial 'l' in 'little' is nonsyllabic
Related & opposite
- syllabic antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | syllabic |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | unsyllabled |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | syllabic |