polysyllable
nounHow many syllables in polysyllable?
There are 5 syllables in the word polysyllable.How to pronounce polysyllable:
Definition of polysyllable:
- polysyllable (noun):
- a polysyllabic word
- noun. a word of more than three syllables.
Synonyms for polysyllable:
archaism
coinage
colloquialism
euphemism
expression
jawbreaker
linguistic form
loanword
modernism
monosyllable
morpheme
neologism
phrase
polysyllabic word
sesquipedalia
sesquipedalian
speech form
term
vernacularism
Antonyms for polysyllable:
monosyllable
single-syllable word
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- asymmetrical
- scatological
- infectiously
- reverberating
- saccharomycetes
- bipinnaria
- precipitancy
- insuperable
- Alexavier
- amplification
- contagiously
- voluntarily
- evacuation
- vituperative
- over-scrupulous
- meretricious
- ancestorial
- impecunious
- anthropomorphize
- contributional
- heterocious
- Poetry4Neanderthals
- monosyllable
- polyplegia
- diphenhydramine
- monotheistic
- primitivity
- fire-extinguisher
- afforestation
- computational
- metamorphosis
- informidable
- delicatessen
- federalism
- expeditious
- cumulonimbus
- unavailable
- unaccountable
- penitentiary
- hypothetical
- modification
- anthropology
- understandingly
- Mediterranean
- necessarily
- polynomial
- melodically
- coeducational
- irresolvable
- considerably
- … more
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