Assonant

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a resemblance of articulate sounds.
  • In prosody, pertaining to or characterized by assonance.
  • noun. A word resembling another in sound. Specifically In prosody, a word forming an assonance with another word. See assonance, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having a resemblance of sounds.
  • adjective. Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables
  • adjective. having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables
  • Word Usage
    "The story gave newspapers the opportunity to use their two favourite words together, resulting in the gleefully assonant “Terror Blunder”."
    Equivalent
    rhymed  rhyming  riming  same  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning