What does anacreontic mean?
Anacreontic means (prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter..
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/əˌnakɹɪˈɒntɪk/ · adjective
(prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter..
[T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.
Use anacreontic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anacreontic means (prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.
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