adjective
- having two syllables
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The word ‘happy’ is disyllabic.
- Most disyllabic words have stress on either the first or second syllable.
- Children often find disyllabic words easier to pronounce than longer ones.
- The poet preferred disyllabic rhymes for this particular meter.
- In English, many disyllabic nouns are stressed on the first syllable.
- The linguist analyzed the disyllabic structure of the language.