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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhopalic: Merriam-Webster
  2. rhopalic: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rhopalic: Wordnik
  4. rhopalic: Wiktionary
  5. Rhopalic: Dictionary.com
  6. Rhopalic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. rhopalic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Rhopalic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. rhopalic: FreeDictionary.org
  10. rhopalic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Rhopalic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Rhopalic: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RHOPALIC: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. rhopalic: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rhopalic)

▸ adjective:  (poetry, rhetoric) Having each successive word longer by a letter or syllable.
▸ noun:  A rhopalic poem.

Similar:
ropalic, rhapsodical, rhyparographic, acromonogrammatic, periodic, pyrrhic, hypercatalectic, rhythmic, ithyphallic, paroxytonic, more...

Opposite:
antirhopalic, catalectic, acatalectic

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Similar:
ropalic, rhapsodical, rhyparographic, acromonogrammatic, periodic, pyrrhic, hypercatalectic, rhythmic, ithyphallic, paroxytonic, more...

Opposite:
antirhopalic, catalectic, acatalectic



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