monosyllabic

Modifies a noun

• word: Learning these 64 correspondences enables children to read approximately 90 % of the monosyllabic words in all four sets of texts.
• reply: He liked to sit long hours over his meals, grunting monosyllabic replies, staring out at the troops that marched below the window.
• answer: Children often responded with monosyllabic answers or gestures rather than appropriate language.
• language: They have no written language, but speak a monosyllabic language, and have a Sign and Gesture Language.
• verb: In contrast, her morphological construction-based theory simply requires the daughter to appear twice for monosyllabic verbs.
• foot: The present document just includes examples from groups 3 and 4, which as you'll see both have a monosyllabic nuclear foot.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: Peter Dinklage's performance is particularly good, particularly since his dialog is almost monosyllabic for much of the film.
• virtually: Certainly, in media interviews the normally voluble economics graduate was virtually monosyllabic, his face resembling an Easter Island statue.
• usually: The author really tries to dig beneath the surface of the usually monosyllabic Coen Brothers and is pretty successful.