Meanings
adjectivesyncopative (not comparable)
- not comparableOf or relating to syncopation.
Any page of sheet-music jazz will reveal a number of common simple syncopative formulas applied to melodic purposes.
1964, Winthrop Sargeant, Jazz: A History, page 58
Origin
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