half rhyme
English edit
Noun edit
half rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural half rhymes)
- An imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
- Synonyms: imperfect rhyme, slant rhyme
- Antonym: near rhyme
- Hypernym: rhyme
- Hyponym: pararhyme
- Coordinate terms: full rhyme, perfect rhyme