cataphoric
adjectiveHow many syllables in cataphoric?
There are 4 syllables in the word cataphoric.How to pronounce cataphoric:
Definition of cataphoric:
- cataphoric (adjective):
- of or relating to cataphora
- being a word or phrase (such as a pronoun) that takes its reference from a following word or phrase (such as her in before her jane saw nothing but desert) compare anaphoric
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- bombardiers
- miniature
- kleptocratic
- discontinuing
- celebrating
- perilously
- homogeneous
- political
- nine eleven
- charitable
- alveolar
- visualize
- modernizer
- vitiligo
- profitable
- antipathy
- separable
- exclamation
- retractable
- frugality
- obsessively
- con anima
- voyeuristic
- graciousness
- triple-tongue
- convincible
- adulterous
- unsensitized
- mysticism
- magnificence
- complimented
- studiously
- renovation
- ponderously
- ineffective
- debaucherous
- contradicted
- undervalue
- self-confident
- animator
- operating
- memorably
- homophonic
- bloviating
- hostility
- exsanguinate
- tu-whit tu-whoo
- ninety nine
- monometers
- alienate
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.
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