hyporrhythmic

adjective

hy·​por·​rhyth·​mic

in Greek and Latin prosody

: deficient as to rhythm

—used of a hexameter in which the end of a word coincides with the end of each foot and which accordingly has no true caesura

Word History

Etymology

Greek hyporrhythmos hyporrhythmic (from hypo- + rhythmos measure, rhythm) + English -ic

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