Usually means: Rhythmic emphasis on weak beats.
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  1. syncopated: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. syncopated: Merriam-Webster
  3. syncopated: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. syncopated: Collins English Dictionary
  5. syncopated: Vocabulary.com
  6. Syncopated, syncopated: Wordnik
  7. syncopated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. syncopated: Wiktionary
  9. syncopated: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. syncopated: Dictionary.com
  11. Syncopated: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Syncopated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. syncopated: Rhymezone
  14. Syncopated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. syncopated: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. syncopated: FreeDictionary.org
  17. syncopated: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. syncopated: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. syncopated: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  (grammar) of a word, shortened by syncope
▸ adjective:  (music) of a rhythm, modified by syncopation

Similar:
rhythmic, rhythmical, apocopate, paroxytonic, apocopic, proparoxytonic, anapaestical, presyncopal, hypercatalectic, paroxytone, more...

Opposite:
straight, even, regular, unaccented

Types:
dotted, triplet, sixteenth, thirty-second, sixty-fourth, more...

Phrases:
syncopated jazz, more...



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Similar:
rhythmic, rhythmical, apocopate, paroxytonic, apocopic, proparoxytonic, anapaestical, presyncopal, hypercatalectic, paroxytone, more...

Opposite:
straight, even, regular, unaccented

Types:
dotted, triplet, sixteenth, thirty-second, sixty-fourth, more...

Phrases:
syncopated jazz, more...



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