Usually means: Lacking one syllable in meter.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. catalectic: Merriam-Webster
  2. catalectic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catalectic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catalectic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catalectic: Vocabulary.com
  6. catalectic: Wordnik
  7. catalectic: Wiktionary
  8. catalectic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. catalectic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Catalectic, catalectic: Dictionary.com
  11. Catalectic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Catalectic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. catalectic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. catalectic: Rhymezone
  15. Catalectic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. catalectic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. catalectic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. catalectic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. catalectic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. catalectic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CATALECTIC: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catalectic: Cats

Definitions from Wiktionary (catalectic)

adjective:  (prosody) (said of a line with incomplete meter) lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.
adjective:  incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance
noun:  (poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.

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