What is "monosyllabic"

Usage examples of "monosyllabic".

Agatha Mansell, finding her monosyllabic, had transferred her attention to Rosemary and was lecturing her in a kind, authoritative way on the many improving pursuits she might with profit engage upon.

Since the end words are disyllabic or er yes trisyllabic but never monosyllabic.

I am tempted to-day to go farther, and to maintain that, the larger, the sublimer, your subject is, the more impertinent rhyme becomes to it: and that this impertinence increases in a sort of geometrical progression as you advance from monosyllabic to dissyllabic and on to trisyllabic rhyme.

At dinner Leah sat down with me and chattered as usual, without troubling herself about my monosyllabic answers.

Without any answer to that last monosyllabic query, the brakie hunched forward, and began to work his way up the train.

While he drove her home he chatted about the evening and the people they had met, apparently not put off by her monosyllabic responses.

The children said something to Nanny and she answered briefly and then nodded just as briefly at Alethea, who nonetheless wished her goodbye for all the world as though they were the best of friends, and then accompanied the children downstairs again, talking cheerfully the whole way, trying not to mind their monosyllabic replies.

Unfortunately, the sensibilities of all four were so blunted that they noticed nothing unusual in his haggard mien and monosyllabic utterances, but talked throughout dinner of commonplaces, and in a cheerful style which could not but make him wonder how he came to be born into such an insensate family.

She was answered, in turns, by monosyllabic grunts from the old Lion and whispered questions from Ermanrich.

Some oriental languages, like Vietnamese, show a great preference for monosyllabic words.

For three days they continued to avoid one another, meeting briefly in the kitchen in the morning over breakfast, when she was meticulous about responding to whatever conversational comments Silas made to her with monosyllabic answers and an averted profile.

Under the guise of the laconic westerner his grunts and monosyllabic replies were designed to abbreviate these irritating intrusions so as to return, one foot always wedged in the door, to the bustling soundstage of the mind he spent lengthening hours of his day hiding out in.

During waking hours he would often stare for hours at nothing, or at a candleflame, and his conversation had become monosyllabic.

On the one hand the monosyllabic affirmatives or distracted giggling of survivors thrown clear by the crash or the blast.

The little woman only replied by faint smiles which vanished almost as they came, and by monosyllabic answers of the briefest description, without taking her eyes off the dishes which she thought tasteless.