| rhythmic | | |
| adj. | 1. rhythmic, rhythmical | recurring with measured regularity.; "the rhythmic chiming of church bells"; "rhythmical prose" |
| ~ regular | in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle.; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties" |
| ~ adonic | having a rhythm consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or a trochee.; "the verse of the laments is Adonic" |
| ~ cadenced, cadent | marked by a rhythmical cadence.; "the cadenced crunch of marching feet" |
| ~ danceable | suitable for dancing. |
| ~ jazzy | resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm). |
| ~ lilting, swinging, swingy, tripping | characterized by a buoyant rhythm.; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure" |
| ~ measured, metric, metrical | the rhythmic arrangement of syllables. |
| ~ sapphic | a meter used by Sappho and named after her. |
| ~ chantlike, intoned, singsong | uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting.; "their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of speaking" |
| ~ syncopated | stressing a normally weak beat. |
| ~ throbbing | pounding or beating strongly or violently.; "a throbbing pain"; "the throbbing engine of the boat" |
| rhythm | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. beat, musical rhythm, rhythm | the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
| ~ backbeat | a loud steady beat. |
| ~ downbeat | the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward). |
| ~ offbeat, upbeat | an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure). |
| ~ syncopation | a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat. |
| ~ musical time | (music) the beat of musical rhythm. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. regular recurrence, rhythm | recurring at regular intervals. |
| ~ cyclicity, periodicity | the quality of recurring at regular intervals. |
| ~ cardiac rhythm, heart rhythm | the rhythm of a beating heart. |
| n. (time) | 3. cycle, rhythm, round | an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.; "the never-ending cycle of the seasons" |
| ~ interval, time interval | a definite length of time marked off by two instants. |
| ~ phase angle, phase | a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle. |
| n. (communication) | 4. rhythm, speech rhythm | the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements.; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry" |
| ~ template, templet, guide | a model or standard for making comparisons. |
| ~ prosody, inflection | the patterns of stress and intonation in a language. |
| n. (act) | 5. calendar method, calendar method of birth control, rhythm, rhythm method, rhythm method of birth control | 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). |
| ~ natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle. |
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