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monosyllabically

Variant of monosyllabic

adjective

  1. having only one syllable: a monosyllabic word
  2. consisting of monosyllables
  3. using, or speaking in, monosyllables, often so as to seem terse or uncommunicative

Origin: ML monosyllabicus

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