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/ˈdæktɪl/ · noun
A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented..
Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]
—My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?
Use dactyl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dactyl means A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented..
Common synonyms include digit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]
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