'Iambic' definitions:
Definition of 'iambic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or consisting of iambs; "iambic pentameter"
noun
A verse line consisting of iambs
Definition of 'Iambic'
From: GCIDE
- Iambic \I*am"bic\, a. [L. iambicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. iambique.]
- 1. (Pros.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Iambic'
From: GCIDE
- Iambic \I*am"bic\, n.
- 1. (Pros.) (a) An iambic foot; an iambus. (b) A verse composed of iambic feet. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The following couplet consists of iambic verses. [1913 Webster]
- Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase fame In keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'iambic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accent,
- accentuation,
- Alexandrine,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- antispastic,
- arsis,
- bacchius,
- beat,
- cadence,
- cadenced,
- caesura,
- catalexis,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- colon,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- dactyl,
- dactylic,
- dactylic hexameter,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- dochmiac,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- emphasis,
- epitrite,
- feminine caesura,
- foot,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- iamb,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- lilt,
- masculine caesura,
- measure,
- measured,
- meter,
- metric,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metron,
- molossus,
- mora,
- movement,
- numbers,
- paeon,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- proceleusmatic,
- prosodic,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- rhythm,
- rhythmic,
- scanning,
- spondaic,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- stress,
- swing,
- syzygy,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochaic,
- trochee