catalectic

catalectic has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• a.. Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.
• a.. Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance.
• n.. (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
• a.. (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot