sexisyllabic

English

Alternative forms

• sexasyllabic

Adjective

sexisyllabic (not comparable)

1. Having six syllables; hexasyllabic.
   • 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination:

     If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]

Translations

having six syllables — see hexasyllabic

References

• “sexisyllabic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.