noun
definition
A word having more than one syllable
adjective
definition
(of a word) Having more than one syllable; having multiple or many syllables.
example
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" definitely qualifies as a polysyllabic word.
definition
(of spoken or written language) Characterized by or consisting of words having numerous syllables.
example
I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.
Examples of polysyllabic in a Sentence
Using polysyllabic words can be tricky in chants.
One of the most obvious defects of this school is excessive attachment to polysyllabic terms. Lydgate is not quite so great a sinner in this respect as are some of his successors, but his tendency cannot be mistaken, and John Metham is amply justified in his censure Eke John Lydgate, sometime monk of Bury, His books indited with terms of rhetoric And half-changed Latin, with conceits of poetry.
For example, polysyllabic words that are atypical of the writer's distinctive voice and typical language might be a hint that he or she has plagiarized a professional website.
They are of the Mongol family; their language belongs to the so-called Turanian group, is polysyllabic, possesses an alphabet of 11 vowels and 14 consonants, and a script named En-mun.
His prose, though not nearly so uniformly monotonous or polysyllabic as the parodists would have us believe, was at one time greatly overpraised.