Definitions for syncopated

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syncopated syn·co·pat·ed

Spelling: [sing-kuh-pey-tid, sin-]

IPA: /ˈsɪŋ kəˌpeɪ tɪd, ˈsɪn-/

Syncopated is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 983 anagrams from letters in syncopated (acdenopsty).

Definitions for syncopated

adjective

1. marked by syncopation:
2. cut short; abbreviated.

verb (used with object)

1. Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
2. Grammar. to contract (a word) by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in reducing Gloucester to Gloster.

Origin of syncopated

1655-65; Late Latin syncopāt(us) (see syncopate) + -ed²

Examples for syncopated

Upstairs a piano took up the refrain in a thin, syncopated echo.

The "time-step" and "break" must be perfectly timed to the syncopated rhythm.

Tollan is but a syncopated form of Tonatlan, the Place of the Sun.

He is about to give us something American: to sing and dance to syncopated melody.

Every voice was independent, and syncopated as were the rhythms.

It was the same tune, curious, syncopated and piercing the night shrilly.

Let that which must be expressed of the rest be merged, syncopated in the largeness of the modulation.

To us, it is the contemporary sound through which new and old truths explode in syncopated revelation.

If you can set his work to syncopated time he seems never to tire of it.

It was the sound of a gramophone, harsh and loud, wheezing out a syncopated tune.