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rhythmic

/ˈɹɪð.mɪk//ˈɹɪð.mək/

adjective

What it means

  1. Of or relating to rhythm.

    The Beshtian School, faithful to this concept of song, was characterized primarily by happy-sounding and rhythmic melodies.

    2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 226
  2. Characterized by rhythm.
  3. Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.

In a sentence

The Beshtian School, faithful to this concept of song, was characterized primarily by happy-sounding and rhythmic melodies.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 226

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ser-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*srew-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*sru-dʰ-mo-s
  4. Proto-Hellenic*hrutʰmós
  5. Ancient Greekῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós)
  6. Ancient Greekῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós)
  7. Englishrhythmic

From Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós), from ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”) + -ικός (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives), equivalent to rhythm + -ic.

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