The Collaborative International Dictionary
Multisyllable \Mul"ti*syl`la*ble\, n. [Multi- + syllable.] A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. [R.] -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.
Wiktionary
a. (context of a word English) Having more than one syllable.
Usage examples of "multisyllabic".
Against the terrors and sorrows of death, only the multisyllabic Latinate adjectives and nouns for protection, the know-how, and then the prayers, for those who have them.
The cold-toned voice speaking the liquid, multisyllabic tongue of Archonis.
He read down the long lists of multisyllabic diagnoses, but none of them seemed to feel exactly right.
It was slow, tortuous going, like reading a foreign language, jammed with multisyllabic words I had to break down into parts before they yielded information.
Everything unimportant specified in intricate detail, with requirements to document that it was done, and the important things buried in multisyllabic generality.
Karinn nodded, reassured by the multisyllabic words and the clinical tone.
I knew them by their behavior and their anatomy, if not by their multisyllabic scientific names, which I learned only later through study.
The man Eula Price and Lou Mauriani had described to her was fleshy and bombastic, with a voice which wafted multisyllabic phrases with the resonance of a church organ.
She wished she had thought to ask her mother more about the girl Ian called Emilythe Mohawk name was something multisyllabic and unpronounceable.
Noonday's voice sounded forth one of their multisyllabic sentences like the mellowest of brass horns.