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Definition of Trisyllabic
1. a. Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word.
Definition of Trisyllabic
1. Adjective. having three syllables ¹
2. Noun. a word comprised of three syllables ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trisyllabic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trisyllabic
Literary usage of Trisyllabic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Lessons for English People by Edwin Abbott Abbott, John Robert Seeley (1901)
"trisyllabic METRE. 143. Early Use of trisyllabic Metre. — Although in early
English alliterative poetry the number of syllables was not regulated by rule, ..."
2. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"trisyllabic. Of trisyllabic feet there are also only two kinds of which whole
poems are composed : Anapest, ..."
3. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1888)
"This liberty is taken still more frequently in the trisyllabic measure; where,
too, the dropping out of unaccented syllables is far from uncommon. ..."
4. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... King Lear — Othello — Cymbeline — Pericles — General considerations—The
pause—The trisyllabic foot and its revival —The redundant syllable — Enjambment ..."
5. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"Such trisyllabic substitutions, in which the extra syllable clearly breaks the
flow of the metre, are to be distinguished from those which are so readily ..."
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