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Significats de polysyllabic en anglès

(Of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables.

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Ús de polysyllabic en anglès
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His father, who is a school-teacher, originally had an impenetrably polysyllabic Italian name.
The new yorker
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Lyric events can be shifted, if you missed splitting up a polysyllabic word somewhere.
Wired
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Revisiting the poem, I was newly astonished by the polysyllabic splendours of the Russian.
The Guardian
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I saw that you were groping for a polysyllabic finish.
The Mayor of Warwick
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Mr. Moseley had arrived with arguments and reasons and platitudes, all expressed in a polysyllabic monotone.
Sandy
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They are Episcopalians or Presbyterians or some other correspondingly polysyllabic thing, as the case may be.
Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart
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But our English way is to put the emphasis on the first part of a polysyllabic word.
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
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The writer gives examples of the meaningless polysyllabic wards that are used so often today in all fields.
The new yorker
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Mr. Lewis took off and bombed the third term, making a mumpy and polysyllabic landing in Herbert Hoover's lap.
The new yorker
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Then there was a torrent of polysyllabic blasphemy from four mouths; exactly who said what would never be clearly recalled.
The lies of locke lamora
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Frank Dunlop is back at the tribunal for the first time in a year, as deft and polysyllabic as ever.
The Irish Times
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Before RISC, he says, those architectures tended to be highly complex and full of the digital equivalent of polysyllabic words.
Wired
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An analogous case to this distributed stress but with monosyllables instead of polysyllabic words is the familiar line in Lycidas-
The Principles of English Versification
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That still left her with a dauntingly long list of characters with polysyllabic names and a tendency to get into trouble.
Discord's apple
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Nanny nodded appreciatively at the polysyllabic response, and gave Tiffany a wink that made her blush to the soles of her boots.
I shall wear midnight
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She looked at the surly male and spoke to him in Lubbock, the polysyllabic guttural language of most of the eastern vodyanoi.
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