Crossword-Solution: IAMBIC 6 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Iambic	a.	Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
Iambic	a.	Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
Iambic	n.	An iambic foot; an iambus.
Iambic	n.	A verse composed of iambic feet.
Iambic	n.	A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

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Word		Anagrams
IAMBIC	anagram	CIMBIA

We have 35 clues for the answer “IAMBIC”

Clue	Answers
Sonnets Like most	1 answer
Like much Shakespearean dialogue	1 answer
Like much of Keats's poetry	1 answer
Like much of Wordsworth's poetry	1 answer
Like some Shakespearean verse	1 answer
Like the meter in sonnets	1 answer
Of a poetic foot	1 answer
Of short-long metric feet	1 answer
Satirical poem.	1 answer
Like most sonnets	1 answer
Stressed at the end, in a way	1 answer
Stressed half the time, say	1 answer
Verse meter.	1 answer
Written in verse, in a way	1 answer
__ pentameter	1 answer
___ pentameter (kind of verse)	1 answer
written in a type of metrical unit	1 answer
Like feet of no concern to a podiatrist?	1 answer
Certain satirical verse	1 answer
Kind of pentameter	1 answer
Kind of verse form with lines of five feet, each with two syllables	1 answer
Like "Jabberwocky"	1 answer
Like "To be or not to be"	1 answer
Like Shakespeare's feet	1 answer
Like Shakespeare's sonnets	1 answer
Like Shakespearean feet	1 answer
Like a Shakespearean "Ta-da!"	1 answer
Like a sonnet, in a way	1 answer
Kind of verse	3 answers
Written in verse	3 answers
Certain poem	3 answers
poem/poetry foot	4 answers
foot poem/poetry	4 answers
Type of verse.	6 answers
Two-syllable foot	6 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

EEZACM

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Unscramble IAMBIC 6-letter words that start with I 6-letter words that end in C 6-letter words containing AM 6-letter words containing IC 6-letter words with I and A

Sentences with IAMBIC (5)

Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.] [Footnote 17: Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, halting iambic) differs from the iambic Senarius in always having a spondee or trichee for its last foot; the fifth foot, to avoid shortness of meter, being generally an iambic.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

And I think that I have an indistinct recollection of his mentioning a complex Cretic rhythm; also a dactylic or heroic, and he arranged them in some manner which I do not quite understand, making the rhythms equal in the rise and fall of the foot, long and short alternating; and, unless I am mistaken, he spoke of an iambic as well as of a trochaic rhythm, and assigned to them short and long quantities.

Plato's Republic Plato 2008

Imitation is only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic poets, whether they write in iambic or in Heroic verse, are imitators in the highest degree? Very true.

Plato's Republic Plato 2008

The poem, he explained, consists of thirteen lines in iambic tetrameter and two lines of two iambics each; in all, one line more than the sonnet's count.

In Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 2008

But, again, the five feet are all iambic, or supposed to be; by the mere count of syllables the four groups cannot be all iambic; as a question of elegance, I doubt if any one of them requires to be so; and I am certain that for choice no two of them should scan the same.

Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson 2012

Quotes with IAMBIC (3)

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Howard Nemerov

If you KNOW that you’re FUCKED Then you’re NOT If you think that you’re NOT THEN YOU ARE! Isn’t that lovely? Iambic pentangle?

Martin Atkins Welcome to the Music Business: You're F**ked!

In your language you have a form of poetry called a sonnet... It is a very strict form of poetry, is it not?... There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That's a very strict rhythm or meter, yes?... And each line has to end with a rigid rhyme pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet, is it?''No.''But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants, doesn't he?''Yes." Calvin nodded again.'…

Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time

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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 40 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).