pentasyllabic
adjectiveHow many syllables in pentasyllabic?
There are 5 syllables in the word pentasyllabic.How to pronounce pentasyllabic:
Definition of pentasyllabic:
- pentasyllabic (adjective):
- having five syllables
- consisting of a syllable or syllables.
Synonyms for pentasyllabic:
disyllabic
monosyllabic
octosyllabic
pentasyllabic
polysyllabic
syllabled
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- incorrigible
- opportunity
- laboratory
- university
- uncooperative
- diagonally
- capability
- disconsolately
- adulteration
- sadistically
- hysterically
- identically
- recapacitate
- conventional
- unwarrantable
- abominable
- matriculation
- cosmopolitan
- intellectual
- overcompensate
- hilariously
- choreography
- significantly
- nostalgically
- multisyllable
- uninterrupted
- accompaniment
- aficionada
- unregrettable
- exhilaration
- unexplainable
- patronizingly
- generically
- technicality
- lackadaisical
- unconditional
- mysteriousness
- magnificently
- interdependent
- expediently
- deliciously
- industrialist
- exaggeration
- craniologist
- perfectionist
- calumniator
- articulacy
- rememberable
- longitudinal
- rectifiable
- … more
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