| unsyllabic | |
adjective | |
| not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong); "the nonsyllabic 'n' in 'botany' when it is pronounced 'botny'"; "the nonsyllabic 'i' in 'oi'" [syn: nonsyllabic] [ant: syllabic] |