iambic
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 6
Definition of iambic
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed–stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance.
“[J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic, there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be more iambic than it is trochaic.”
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adj
-
Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed–stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance.
“[J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic, there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be more iambic than it is trochaic.”
noun
- An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle French iambique, from Late Latin ïambicus, from Ancient Greek ἰαμβικός (iambikós), from ἴαμβος (íambos) + -ικός (-ikós).
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