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singsong
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun singsong has 2 senses
- singsong(n = noun.communication) Array - a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation; Array is a kind of intonation, modulation, pitch contour
- singsong(n = noun.act) singalong - informal group singing of popular songs; Array is a kind of singing, vocalizing
Derived forms verb singsong1, verb singsong2
Derived forms verb singsong1, verb singsong2
Verb singsong has 2 senses
- singsong(v = verb.communication) Array - speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong; Array is one way to cantillate, chant, intonate, intone
- singsong(v = verb.motion) Array - move as if accompanied by a singsong; "The porters singsonged the travellers' luggage up the mountain" is one way to displace, move
Derived forms noun singsong2, noun singsong1
Sample sentence:
They will singsong the duet
Derived forms noun singsong2, noun singsong1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Adjective singsong has 1 sense
- singsong(s = adj.all) chantlike, intoned - uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting; "their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of speaking"
CIDE DICTIONARY
singsong, n.
- Bad singing or poetry. [1913 Webster]
- A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song. [1913 Webster]
singsong, a.
Drawling; monotonous; having a monotonous cadence. [1913 Webster]
singsong, v. i.
To write poor poetry. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
singsong, adj., n., & v.
--adj. uttered with a monotonous rhythm or cadence.
--n.
1 a singsong manner.
2 Brit. an informal gathering for singing.
--v.intr. & tr. (past and past part. singsonged) speak or recite in a singsong manner.
--adj. uttered with a monotonous rhythm or cadence.
--n.
1 a singsong manner.
2 Brit. an informal gathering for singing.
--v.intr. & tr. (past and past part. singsonged) speak or recite in a singsong manner.
THESAURUS
singsong
alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, assonance, assonant, belabored, blah, broken-record, chanting, chime, chiming, cliche-ridden, clockwork regularity, constancy, daily round, dingdong, drearisome, dreary, drone, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, even pace, even tenor, everlasting, harping, humdrum, invariability, invariable, jingle, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, long-winded, monologue, monotone, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, near rhyme, orderliness, pitter-patter, prolix, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, sameliness, sameness, slant rhyme, smoothness, stale repetition, tedious, tedium, treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, uneventful, unnecessary repetition, unvariation, unvaryingROGET THESAURUS
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Discord
N discord, disagreement, discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance, jar, clash, shock, jarring, jostling, screw loose, variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie, division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach, schism, feud, faction, quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words, wrangling, jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap, family jars, polemics, litigation, strife, warfare, outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war, broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation, embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus, breeze, squall, riot, disturbance, commotion, bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point, bone of contention, bone to pick, apple of discord, casus belli, question at issue, vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord, troublous times, cat-and-dog life, contentiousness, enmity, hate, Kilkenny cats, disputant, strange bedfellows, discordant, disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient, unreconciled, unpacified, contentious, quarrelsome, unpacific, gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious, litigious, litigant, pettifogging, at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words, up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled, torn, disunited, quot homines tot sententiae, no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites, Mars gravior sub pace latet, discord, discordance, dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling, harshness, Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert, marrowbones and cleavers, discordant, dissonant, absonant, out of tune, tuneless, unmusical, untunable, unmelodious, immelodious, unharmonious, inharmonious, singsong, cacophonous, harsh, jarring.
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