Definitions for Trochaic

Trochaic tro·cha·ic

Spelling: [troh-key-ik]
IPA: /troʊˈkeɪ ɪk/

Trochaic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in Trochaic (acchiort).

Definitions for Trochaic

noun

  1. a trochee.
  2. Usually, trochaics. a verse or poem written in trochees.

adjective

  1. pertaining to the trochee.
  2. consisting of or employing a trochee or trochees.

Origin of Trochaic

1580-90; Latin trochaicus Greek trochaïkós, equivalent to trocha(îos) trochee + -ikos -ic

Examples for Trochaic

The Greek trochaic tetrameter, similarly, contains eight trochees, the English 'trochaic tetrameter' but four.

It does not admit of frequent substitutions, for many substitutions destroy the trochaic effect.

The fifth trochaic species is likewise uncommon; and, as a Bowbellian would say, uncommon ugly.

Shelley's To a Skylark is in trochaic metre of 3-stress and 6-stress lines.

How, then, let us ask the challenger, is the application of the trochaic system justified?

The originals (and Miss Rootham's versions) are all in trochaic decasyllabics.

The last line, however, full of tenderness and sadness, is trochaic.

trochaic metre is often read, as if it were a kind of crude iambic.

The trochaic metre he generally used for subjects of a serious nature; the iambic for satires.

In St. Austin's poem he united to a trochaic measure the novel attraction of rhyme.

Word Value for Trochaic
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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