Synonyms & related words for prosody

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of prosody — including versification, metrics, scansion. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to prosody

Explore words related to prosody — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include prosodist, acatalectic, hypercatalectic, anapest, spondaic, prosodic, catalectic, amphibrach. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for prosody

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Where does prosody come from?

The word prosody breaks down into 2 roots of Greek origin: pros-, from Greek pros (“toward, in addition”); and -od, from Greek oide (“song”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.