monosyllabic

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Alicia, so expansive, so theatrical, so much the centre of the situation, when she chose, could be equally prickly, monosyllabic, and repellent when it suited her to be so.

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  1. adjective Having only one syllable.
  2. adjective Characterized by or consisting of monosyllables.

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  • The men were monosyllabic, except for a garrulous laugher with silvered waved hair. —  The Great California Game—Lovejoy—Jonathan Gash
  • First Blood, or am I hoping for the still-monosyllabic-but-occassionally-smartass decimator from The release date for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix bumped up two days to July 11, Muggles, but there's even more exciting news: In late 2009, you'll find —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • First Blood, or am I hoping for the still-monosyllabic-but-occassionally-smartass decimator from Movie Trailers —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Don't you hurt her dog! long-awaited fourth mission as the monosyllabic ex-Green Beret, has been making the blog rounds. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • He found it "monotonous, monosyllabic, and divided into five feet of tolerably regular alternate short and long [i. e., unstressed and stressed]. —  The Principles of English Versification
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  1. = French monosyllabique = Spanish monosilábico = Portuguese monosyllabico (cf. Spanish monosílabo = Italian monosillabo, adjective), from Latin monosyllabus, from Greek μονοσύλλαβος, of one syllable, monosyllabic: see monosyllable.
 

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/mɑnəsɪˈlæbɪk/
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