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
accordant
according
alliteral
alliterating
alliterative