Univocal

Quick meaning: Univocal is an adjective meaning (rhetoric) Having only one possible meaning.

Meaning

(rhetoric) Having only one possible meaning.

More Meanings

1. Containing instances of only one vowel; univocalic.
2. Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music.
3. Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
4. Unequivocal; indubitable.
5. A word having only one meaning.
6. A document containing instances of only one vowel.

Example Sentences

The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]

I read through the dictionary five times to extract an extensive lexicon of univocal words containing only one of the five vowels.

Eunoia is a univocal lipogram — an anomalous narrative, in which each vowel appears by itself in its own chapter, telling a story in its own voice.

These scenarios should not be seen as unambiguous, univocal solutions, and it would be wrong to treat any of them as such; rather, they are just meant to spell out a range of possibilities.

Word Forms

• univocals

Synonyms for univocal

Depending on context, synonyms include definite, monosemous, unambiguous, unequivocal, undoubtable, self-evident.

Antonyms for univocal

Common opposites include ambiguous, equivocal, polysemous, polysemic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conclusive, straightforward, unambiguous, unequivocal, unquestionable, absolute.

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