consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound not accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominating the other vowel sounds in a syllab;
(of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities;
consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing";
of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable";
