immetrical

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adjective

Not metrical or rhythmical.

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Meanings

adjectiveimmetrical (comparative more immetrical, superlative most immetrical)

comparative more immetrical · superlative most immetrical

  1. Not metrical or rhythmical.

    French and Italian most immetrical , Their many syllables in harsh collision

    1611, George Chapman, "To the Reader" (poem attached to Iliad)
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    An alteration here, leaving immetrical a line already so by turning "this letter is for you" into "these letters are for you," for no apparent reason in the text, can be regarded only as one of the changes made for change's sake.

    1932, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Shakespeare Canon: The origination of "Henry V.", page 127

Origin

From im- + metrical.

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Chicago

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