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immetrical en · ADJ

Etymology

From im- + metrical.

Meanings

  1. Not metrical or rhythmical.
    • French and Italian most immetrical , Their many syllables in harsh collision 1611, George Chapman, "To the Reader" (poem attached to Iliad)
    • An alteration here, leaving immetrical a line already so by turning "this letter is for you" into "these letters are for you," for no apparent reason in the text, can be regarded only as one of the changes made for change's sake. 1932, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Shakespeare Canon: The origination of "Henry V.", page 127:

Forms

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more immetrical Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most immetrical Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

immetrically