1 having only one syllable:
a monosyllabic word / reply
2 (of a person or their way of speaking) saying very little, in a way that appears rude to other people:
Ralph grew increasingly monosyllabic as the evening progressed.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for monosyllabic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is monosyllabic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, monosyllabic is tagged as adjective.
Does monosyllabic appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — monosyllabic appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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