Translations for „monosyllable“ in the English » Arabic Dictionary

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monosyllable ADJ

monosyllable

أحادي المقطع

monosyllable <monosyllable; monosyllables> N

monosyllable

ذات مقطع واحد

monosyllable LING

كَلِمَةٌ أُحَادِيَّةُ المَقْطَع

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Since boo is a monosyllable, it can also be said very quickly, which may add to its scariness.

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He was settled comfortably in a large chair, speaking very rarely or only in occasional monosyllables, and mostly remaining detached from everyone around him.

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This historic happening only evoked those three humdrum monosyllables.

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Sometimes she would only speak in grunts or monosyllables.

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As the camera faces his back and the tailor does the measurements, he responds to the tailor's polite questions in monosyllables.

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Initially he is dressed in a loincloth only (with an occasional cravat added in an amusing attempt to appear more civilized) and speaks in grunts and monosyllables.

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She speaks in monosyllables and is so bored and laidback to be almost horizontal.

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There's such glee in it, too, and such bravado in the staccato pummelling of those weighty monosyllables.

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We revere the man with no name who looks up from the card table and deals the occasional monosyllable.

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He rarely speaks and when he does, he only speaks in monosyllables.

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