HYPERCATALECTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypercatalectic mean? 

• HYPERCATALECTIC (noun)
  The noun HYPERCATALECTIC has 1 sense:

1. (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot

  Familiarity information: HYPERCATALECTIC used as a noun is very rare.

• HYPERCATALECTIC (adjective)
  The adjective HYPERCATALECTIC has 1 sense:

1. (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot

  Familiarity information: HYPERCATALECTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERCATALECTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("hypercatalectic" is a kind of...):

line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)

Domain category:

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

Derivation:

hypercatalectic ((verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot)

• HYPERCATALECTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot

Antonym:

acatalectic ((verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot)

catalectic ((verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot)

Derivation:

hypercatalectic ((prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot)