Unsyncopated

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not syncopated. not-comparable

    "And so a White Magic song is built on hardly anything: an unsyncopated vocal pattern, uncertain keyboard technique, shorthand lyrics (“who we are/how we live/all that has to do with innocence/has grown apart”) and very, very few piano notes."

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"And so a White Magic song is built on hardly anything: an unsyncopated vocal pattern, uncertain keyboard technique, shorthand lyrics (“who we are/how we live/all that has to do with innocence/has grown apart”) and very, very few piano notes."

Etymology

From un- + syncopated.

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