iambic

comparative more iambic · superlative most iambic · alternative ïambic · alternative iambical · alternative iambick · alternative jambic

1. human sciencesConsisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed–stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance.

   [J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic, there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be more iambic than it is trochaic.

   1908, Frank Gilbert Bruner, The Hearing of Primitive Peoples, page 17

plural iambics · alternative ïambic · alternative iambical · alternative iambick · alternative jambic

1. human sciencesAn iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs.