assonant

assonant has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Having a resemblance of sounds.
• a.. Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.
• a.. having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
• a.. having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'"