Synonyms of rhythms

rhythms

noun

plural of rhythm

as in cadences

the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity

the steady rhythm of the rain falling on the roof

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cadences
• beats
• drums
• emphases
• meters
• accents
• throbs
• measures
• stresses
• movements
• backbeats
• accentuations
• swings
• sways
• hexameters
• lilts
• pentameters
• tetrameters
• trimeters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rhythms

This pair’s son, Robert Nesta Marley, moved to the island’s capital with his mum and grew up alongside a new homegrown record business whose signature rhythms—ska, rocksteady, reggae—made Jamaica famous. — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026

Our range includes a meandering cowboy odyssey that sprawls from a nowhere town in Texas to Big Sky country, a poignantly observant memoir from a wild child Dreamlander, and a careful dissection of a situationship set to the rhythms of 1970s Brazil. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026

The heart-palpitating rhythms and glitchy stutters suggest some unholy mix of early Plastikman and Mark Fell, the vestiges of ’90s dance music reanimated into a herky-jerky Frankenstein’s monster. — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026

This change in the nature of work forces a broader operating model shift, as many organizations built their operating rhythms around individual contributors producing high-quality work. — Neil Dhar, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

Most travelers never get to see these rhythms of island life, and the mailboat run gives them a front-row seat. — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026

The leader who takes bodyful ownership of their life and enacts disciplined practices to sense its rhythms will not only enjoy greater harmony and wellbeing but bring greater coherence to their work and to their world. — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Herzog said clock changes disrupt circadian rhythms, the body's internal clock that regulates sleep and other biological functions. — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 31 July 2026

The village’s daily rhythms are ordered by the passing trains—until a train arrives from Pakistan loaded with the corpses of Sikh refugees, and the community is made to cremate the dead. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026