Usually means: Ten syllables per line, poetry.
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  1. decasyllabic: Merriam-Webster
  2. decasyllabic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decasyllabic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decasyllabic: Vocabulary.com
  5. decasyllabic: Wordnik
  6. decasyllabic: Wiktionary
  7. decasyllabic: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Decasyllabic, decasyllabic: Dictionary.com
  9. Decasyllabic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. decasyllabic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. decasyllabic: Rhymezone
  12. Decasyllabic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. decasyllabic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. decasyllabic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Decasyllabic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decasyllabic)

▸ adjective:  Having ten syllables.
▸ adjective:  Composed of decasyllables.
▸ noun:  (mostly plural) A decasyllable.

Similar:
syllabic, quindecasyllabic, undecasyllabic, endecasyllabic, hendecasyllabic, dodecasyllabic, tetradecasyllabic, duodecasyllabic, tetrasyllabic, tridecasyllabic, more...

Opposite:
monosyllabic, disyllabic, trisyllabic, polysyllabic

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syllabic, quindecasyllabic, undecasyllabic, endecasyllabic, hendecasyllabic, dodecasyllabic, tetradecasyllabic, duodecasyllabic, tetrasyllabic, tridecasyllabic, more...

Opposite:
monosyllabic, disyllabic, trisyllabic, polysyllabic



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