alliterative
[uh-lit-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv]
adjective
pertaining to or characterized by alliteration: alliterative verse.
Origin of alliterative
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Related Words for alliterative
boring, repetitive, redundant, dull, long-winded, prolix, resonant, tautological, verbose, windy, echoic, iterative, plangent, pleonastic, reiterative, iterantExamples from the Web for alliterative
Contemporary Examples of alliterative
Even his alliterative name had mythic qualities: Ben Bradlee.
Like Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur is in alliterative verse, a mode last fashionable in the 14th century.
“More Mitt,” as Politico reported at least has the virtue of alliterative succinctness.
Historical Examples of alliterative
Phrases have great power when they are antithetical or alliterative.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
It was filled with odd, historical and alliterative articles.
There is art in alliterative headlines and startling “cross-heads.”
The Seven SecretsWilliam Le Queux
Let your alliterative motto be: With the glass, not the gun.
Our Bird ComradesLeander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
So forth: alliterative antitheses of the accustomed pamphleteer.
The Tragic Comedians, CompleteGeorge Meredith
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