NONSYLLABIC

nonsyllabic

(adjective) (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable; “initial ‘l’ in ‘little’ is nonsyllabic”

nonsyllabic, unsyllabic

(adjective) not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong); “the nonsyllabic ‘n’ in ‘botany’ when it is pronounced ‘botny’”; “the nonsyllabic ‘i’ in ‘oi’”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

nonsyllabic (not comparable)

Not syllabic.

Source: Wiktionary



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