Synonyms for "anapest" (80 found)

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Closest matches (16)

accentaccentuationalexandrineamphibrachamphimaceranacrusisantidactylusantispastarsisbacchiusbeatcadencecaesuracatalexis

Noun(2 words)

anapaestantidactylus

Strong matches (24)

chloriambchloriambuscoloncounterpointcreticdactyldactylic hexameterdiaeresisdimeterdipodydochmiacelegiacelegiac coupletelegiac pentameteremphasisepitritefeminine caesurafootheptameterheptapody

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heroic couplethexameterhexapodyiamb

Related words (40)

iambiciambic pentameterictusionicjingleliltmasculine caesurameasuremetermetrical accentmetrical footmetrical groupmetrical unitmetronmolossusmoramovementnumberspaeonpentameter

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pentapodyperiodproceleusmaticpyrrhicquantityrhythmspondeesprung rhythmstressswingsyzygytetrametertetrapodytetrasemethesistribrachtrimetertripodytrisemetrochee

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries

footmetrical footmetrical unit

Synonyms

1 entries

antidactylus

derived

2 entries

anapesticanapestical

has context

1 entries

prosody

is a

1 entries

metrical foot

related to

6 entries

footinterruptmetermetricalsyllablevelveteen

Translations

33 translations across 22 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries

• ἀνάπαιστος noun (metrical foot)

Armenian

2 entries

• անապեստ noun (metrical foot)
• վերջատանջ noun (metrical foot)

Catalan

1 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)

Czech

1 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)

Danish

1 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)

Dutch

2 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)
• anapest noun (verse using this meter)

Faroese

1 entries

• øvutur tríliður noun (metrical foot)

Finnish

1 entries

• anapesti noun (metrical foot)

French

1 entries

• anapeste noun (metrical foot)

German

2 entries

• Anapäst noun (metrical foot)
• Anapäst noun (verse using this meter)

Greek

1 entries

• ανάπαιστος noun (metrical foot)

Ido

1 entries

• anapesto noun (metrical foot)

Irish

2 entries

• anaipéist noun (metrical foot)
• anaipéist noun (verse using this meter)

Latin

1 entries

• anapaestus noun (metrical foot)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)

Polish

3 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)
• anapest noun (verse using this meter)
• antydaktyl noun (metrical foot)

Portuguese

2 entries

• anapesto noun (metrical foot)
• anapesto noun (verse using this meter)

Russian

2 entries

• ана́пест noun (metrical foot)
• ана́пест noun (verse using this meter)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

• anàpest noun (metrical foot)
• anàpest noun (verse using this meter)
• ана̀пест noun (metrical foot)
• ана̀пест noun (verse using this meter)

Spanish

1 entries

• anapesto noun (metrical foot)

Swedish

1 entries

• anapest noun (metrical foot)

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