multisyllabic
adjective
languagespecialized(alsomulti-syllabic)uk/ˌmʌl.ti.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/us/ˌmʌl.ti.sɪˈlæb.ɪk//ˌmʌl.taɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/having severalsyllables(=partsinto which a word can beseparated, usuallycontainingavowel), or using words like this:
Fortypercentof the multisyllabic words werestressedon thepenultimatesyllable.
Arabicis a multi-syllabiclanguage.
Compare
monosyllabic(WORD)specialized
- Theyfoundthatolderadultswere morelikelythantheiryoungercounterpartsto uselongeror multisyllabic words.
- Thismeasureindicateshow often achildproduceda multisyllabicform.
- Thisfactorhas not beenexaminedin children’srepetitionof multi-syllabic nonwords.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ion
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- suffix
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable