Usually means: Poetic meter of unstressed, stressed.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. iambic: Merriam-Webster
  2. iambic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. iambic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. iambic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. iambic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Iambic, iambic: Wordnik
  7. iambic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. iambic: Wiktionary
  9. iambic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. iambic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Iambic, iambic: Dictionary.com
  12. iambic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Iambic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Iambic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. iambic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. iambic: Rhymezone
  17. Iambic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. iambic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. iambic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. iambic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. iambic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Iambic: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. iambic: Global Glossary
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. iambic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. iambic: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. iambic: The Folk File
  2. iambic: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (iambic)

▸ adjective:  (prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]
▸ noun:  (prosody) An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs.

Similar:
amphibrachic, footed, isosyllabic, ambisyllabic, monoid, hexametrical, dipodic, trisemic, asynartete, asynartetic, more...

Opposite:
trochaic, anapestic, dactylic

Types:
pentameter, iamb, more...

Phrases:
iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, iambic verse, iambic pentameters, iambic meter, more...

Adjectives:
stress, loose, english, pure, strict, foot, regular, greek, trochaic, majestic, heroic
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Similar:
amphibrachic, footed, isosyllabic, ambisyllabic, monoid, hexametrical, dipodic, trisemic, asynartete, asynartetic, more...

Opposite:
trochaic, anapestic, dactylic

Types:
pentameter, iamb, more...

Phrases:
iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, iambic verse, iambic pentameters, iambic meter, iambic hexameter, Iambic trimeter, more...

Adjectives:
stress, loose, english, pure, strict, foot, regular, greek, trochaic, majestic, heroic



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