rhythm
rhythm is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.
- noun. Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
- noun. A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
- noun. The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
- noun. natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
- noun. recurring at regular intervals
- noun. the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
"the rhythm of Frost's poetry"
- noun. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
"the piece has a fast rhythm"
"the conductor set the beat"
- noun. an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
"the never-ending cycle of the seasons"
Synonyms
Common word forms
rhythms, rhythmal, rhythmed, rhythmize, rhythmless
Words from these letters
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