Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, showing, or characterized by alliteration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or consisting in alliteration; characterized by alliteration.
Wiktionary
- adj. In the form or style of alliteration.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable
Examples
“I'm just back from a blog break (after taking courses in alliterative prose ... just kidding).”
“Mumblix Grumph, as much as I’d like to see Bush and Cheyney in chains, (appealingly alliterative is it not) I do not think that Hillary is the answer to the countries problems.”
“The website TheyWorkForYou reveals that he "has used three-word alliterative phrases eg 'she sells seashells' 381 times in debates – well above average amongst Lords," it says.”
“Anyway, someone whose main talents seem to be self-promotion and coining alliterative phrases should not be calling others trolls.”
“The spirited romance generally known as the alliterative _Morte Arthure_ must also belong here, though the MS. itself is of later date.”
“But if I don't at least attempt to get a solid five and a half hours of sleep tonight, I will become the Gorgon Journalist of Georgia -- which, although it has its alliterative merits (is "alliterative" a word, by the way?”
“Other favorite words in shampoo promotion were the shimmering and alliterative shine and sheen, which along with silky reminded consumers that hair mucked up by soap scum was now a thing of the past.”
“Among the punditry, this connection between religiosity and the vote has been given the unfortunate but alliterative label of the God gap—the gap in question referring to the political differences between people at varying levels of religiosity.1 It is thus like the so-called gender gap, the difference in the partisan tendencies of men and women.”
“Hmm, the alliterative name could be a nod to Fonda's ex-husband, CNN founder Ted Turner.”
“On the other hand the “All Americans agree” alliterative refrain really grated on my nerves.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alliterative’.
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Rats
rats, rat, tree-rat, pilori-rat, prorate, pro rata, Ratso Rizzo, ratfink, rat pack, Rat Pack, Rats!, rat race and 157 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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the_grene_kni3t's Words
acuarela, sesquipedalian, capital, métier, chap, cove, guv, guv'nor, ratiocination, transatlantique, ineffable, aural and 142 more...
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Poetic
Poetry terms.
flarf, triolet, sonnet, jackpine sonnet, alliterative, logolepsy
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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likaluca's Words
recursive, genuflect, libidinous, emote, smote, importune, trill, chillax, overshare, shorn, needle, ego and 162 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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Bibliophilia
codex, matrix, patrix, caesura, incunabulum, syllabic, pictograph, scribe, vernacular, iambic, trochaic, pentameter and 36 more...
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Fun with words
Pangram, paronomasia, lipogram, Antanaclasis, Syllepsis, mondegreen, mishy-phen, snowclone, anagram, palindrome, alliterative
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Odessa's Words
defenestration, decathect, effulgent, taciturn, ataraxia, coprophagous, nyctitropic, pernicious, paradox, anachronism, synesthesia, cacophony and 223 more...
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fancynancykay's list
A plethora of wonderful words
persiflage, plethora, dearth, antithetical, immutable, incorrigible, oxymoron, caustic, jocularity, antithesis, preternatural, genuflect and 18 more...
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