The adjective 'polysyllabic' is polysyllabic.
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Polysyllabic
//ˌpɒ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk//
Synonyms for "polysyllabic" (6 found)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 29 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- բազմավանկ adj (having more than one syllable)
Belarusian
1 entries- шматскладо́вы adj (having more than one syllable)
Bulgarian
1 entries- многосри́чен adj (having more than one syllable)
Catalan
2 entries- polisil·làbic adj (having more than one syllable)
- polisíl·lab adj (having more than one syllable)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 多音節的 /多音节的 adj (having more than one syllable)
Czech
2 entries- mnohoslabičný adj (having more than one syllable)
- víceslabičný adj (having more than one syllable)
Dutch
1 entries- meerlettergrepig adj (having more than one syllable)
Faroese
1 entries- við fleiri stavilsum adj (having more than one syllable)
Finnish
1 entries- monitavuinen adj (having more than one syllable)
French
1 entries- polysyllabique adj (having more than one syllable)
German
2 entries- mehrsilbig adj (having more than one syllable)
- vielsilbig adj (having more than one syllable)
Greek
1 entries- πολυσύλλαβος adj (having more than one syllable)
Hungarian
1 entries- több szótagú/szótagos adj (having more than one syllable)
Irish
1 entries- ilsiollach adj (having more than one syllable)
Italian
3 entries- plurisillabo adj (having more than one syllable)
- polisillabico adj (having more than one syllable)
- polisillabo adj (having more than one syllable)
Japanese
1 entries- 多音節 adj (having more than one syllable)
Korean
1 entries- 다음절의 adj (having more than one syllable)
Macedonian
1 entries- повеќесложен adj (having more than one syllable)
Manx
1 entries- yl-heelagh adj (having more than one syllable)
Polish
1 entries- wielosylabowy adj (having more than one syllable)
Portuguese
2 entries- polissilábico adj (having more than one syllable)
- polissílabo adj (having more than one syllable)
Russian
1 entries- многосло́жный adj (having more than one syllable)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ioma-lideach adj (having more than one syllable)
Slovak
1 entries- viacslabičný adj (having more than one syllable)
Spanish
1 entries- polisílabo adj (having more than one syllable)
Swedish
1 entries- flerstavig adj (having more than one syllable)
Turkish
1 entries- çok heceli adj (having more than one syllable)
Ukrainian
1 entries- багатоскладо́вий adj (having more than one syllable)
Vietnamese
2 entries- nhiều âm tiết adj (having more than one syllable)
- đa âm tiết adj (having more than one syllable)
Sample sentences
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Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
Source: tatoeba (11822378)
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" definitely qualifies as a polysyllabic word.
Source: wiktionary
I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.
Source: wiktionary
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