MONOSYLLABLE


Meaning of MONOSYLLABLE in English

noun

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But no one really knew, since he seldom spoke, except in monosyllables, and ignored most greetings.

Figure 3.5 Percentage low vowel in variable monosyllables and prefixed and inflected disyllables.

He's even something of a linguist apparently he can grunt monosyllables in five languages.

He said he would not ever call me by a monosyllable again, and in fact he never did.

He wandered round her flat, answering her attempts at conversation with monosyllables.

Sanskrit is unique as these monosyllables are held to represent the basic energies of the universe.

She did not respond to any greeting that day with more than a monosyllable .

This turns out to be a strange sort of monosyllabism that has such a small proportion of its words as free monosyllables.

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