anapest

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A metrical foot of three syllables of the shape | ⏖ – |:
2. noun In qualitative metre, a foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed final syllable.
3. noun In quantitative metre, a foot with two short syllables followed by a long final syllable.
4. noun An excerpt of poetry or verse using this metre.

Similar words

anapaest amphibrach tetrameter trimeter elegiac pentameter epitrite heptameter half foot iambic tetrameter octapody

Often followed by

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Word family

anapestic anapestics anapests