Crossword-Solution: ANAPAEST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Anapaest | - | Alt. of Anapaestic |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ANAPAEST | anagram | NEATASAP |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ANAPAEST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| METRICAL foot (poet.) | 1 answer |
| metrical foot of three syllables, the first two short, the last long | 1 answer |
| THREE-syllable foot | 3 answers |
| METRICAL foot of three syllables | 4 answers |
| foot verse | 4 answers |
| FOOT (poet.) | 8 answers |
| metrical foot | 12 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with ANAPAEST (4)
Now Spond was the greatest and heaviest of the wolfhounds; Anap, rightly Anapaest, was a slender and swift greyhound; and whereas he found this pastime of names good sport he carried it further.
Masson tells us that "Self-fed and self-consumed: if this fail," and "Dwells in all Heaven charity so rare," are "only nine syllables," and that in "Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream," "either the third foot must be read as an _anapaest_ or the word _hugest_ must be pronounced as one syllable, _hug'st_," I think Milton would have invoked the soul of Sir John Cheek.
Nor does the rule[203] observed by Seneca, that only a spondee or anapaest is permitted in the fifth foot, tend to relieve the monotony, though it does much to give the individual lines such weight as they possess.
Every boy or girl finds the metre imperfect, but the pedant comes to its defence with a tribrachys or an anapaest, and sets it right at once by applying to one language the rules of another.