Iambic

Adjective

 * 1)  Consisting of iambs or characterized by their predominance
 * 2) * 1908, Frank Gilbert Bruner, The Hearing of Primitive Peoples, page 17
 * [J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic, there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be more iambic than it is trochaic.

Derived terms

 * iambic pentameter

Noun

 * 1)  An iamb; A line or group of lines of iambs.

Antonyms

 * trochaic

Thesaurus
Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, antispastic, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, cadenced, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, measured, meter, metric, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, prosodic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochaic, trochee

Etymology
From ἰαμβικός:.

Adjective

 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * French: iambique
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Spanish: yámbico
 * Swedish: jambisk