percussive
adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by percussion.
percussiveness
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a word derived from
percussive.
Example Sentences
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They have more street-dance percussiveness and freestyle verve.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
For Morrison’s “Fair Play,” the first track on the 1974 album “Veedon Fleece,” Walker turned a piano-based jazz ballad into a six-stringed workout that replaced keyboard percussiveness with dazzling fretboard runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2015
That’s the voiceless velar fricative, and it adds a wonderful percussiveness to “99 Luftbalons.”
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2012
The themes often move in unexpected directions, and Escreet peremptorily adds a Thelonious Monkish, note-prodding percussiveness to lines that seem at first to be unfolding with a methodically interweaving nu-jazz deliberation.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2010
One expects in Prokofiev dissonance, humor, percussiveness and strong drive; yet there is also much sheer lyrical beauty.
From Time Magazine Archive
