monosyllable in English
noun
1
a word consisting of only one syllable.
‘No,’ came the monosyllable again and then, as though he felt this needed some reasonable elaboration David added ‘I've been sick.’
noun
monosyllabic word
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1. 10 And then the fraught silence would modulate into conciliatory monosyllable, and back to their peaceful co-existence.
2. 22 In the features of the Chinese adverb, the polysyllable and monosyllable phrases have different functions. However, in past adverb research, people have neglected the genre conditionality principle.