anisosyllabic

English

Etymology

From aniso- +‎ syllabic or an- +‎ iso- +‎ syllabic.

Adjective

anisosyllabic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, poetry) of or pertaining to metrical systems in which syllables are of differing lengths

Antonyms

• isosyllabic

Derived terms

• anisosyllabism

Translations

of meters with syllables of differing length

• Italian: anisosillabico (it)
• Portuguese: anisossilábico