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DACTYLIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dactylic mean?
• DACTYLIC (adjective)
The adjective DACTYLIC has 1 sense:
1. of or consisting of dactyls
Familiarity information: DACTYLIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or consisting of dactyls
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
dactylic meter
Domain category:
metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)
Pertainym:
dactyl (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables)
Derivation:
dactyl (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables)
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