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monosyllabic

adj
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)sɪˈlabɪk/UK/ˌmɒn.oʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin monosyllabicus, from Latin monosyllabus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μονοσύλλαβος (monosúllabos). By surface analysis, monosyllable + -ic or mono- + syllabic.

  1. derived from μονοσύλλαβος
  2. derived from monosyllabus
  3. borrowed from monosyllabicus

Definitions

  1. Consisting of one syllable.

    • monosyllabic word

  2. Using monosyllables, speaking in monosyllables

    Using monosyllables, speaking in monosyllables; curt.

    • monosyllabic responses
    • Hardy is perfect. He’s physical and monosyllabic.

  3. A word consisting of one syllable.

The neighborhood

Derived

monosyllabically, nonmonosyllabic

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for monosyllabic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA