Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catalectic

1 sense of catalectic

Sense 1
catalectic -- ((prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot)
       => line of poetry, line of verse -- (a single line of words in a poem)

Antonyms of adj catalectic

1 sense of catalectic

Sense 1
catalectic (vs. hypercatalectic) (vs. acatalectic) -- ((verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot)

hypercatalectic (vs. acatalectic) (vs. catalectic) -- ((verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot)
acatalectic (vs. catalectic) (vs. hypercatalectic) -- ((verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot)

Similarity of adj catalectic

1 sense of catalectic

Sense 1
catalectic (vs. hypercatalectic) (vs. acatalectic) -- ((verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot)