noun a verse composed of iambic feet.
2. iambic ·noun an iambic foot; an iambus.
3. iambic ·noun a satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
4. iambic ·adj pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. ·see lambus.
5. iambic ·adj consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.