Alliterative

Synonyms for "alliterative" (28 found)

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Closest matches (6)

Strong matches (8)

Adjective(2 words)
consonantal repetitioninitial consonant repetition

Related words (14)

Adjective(3 words)
poetic devicerhetorical devicestylistic device

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries
linguistic featurepoetic devicerhetorical device

More specific

4 entries
accentual alliterationconsonantal alliterationinitial alliterationstressed alliteration

Collocations

5 entries
alliterative devicealliterative patternalliterative rhythmalliterative stylealliterative verse

Inflections

2 entries
more alliterativemost alliterative

Derivations

2 entries

similar

3 entries

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Old English literature was gnomic and alliterative.

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