syncopated in English

verb

1

displace the beats or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa.

syncopated dance music

2

shorten (a word) by dropping sounds or letters in the middle, as in symbology for symbolology , or Gloster for Gloucester.

Nouns ending in d or g containing a long vowel or diphthong where that consonant is syncopated in the plural, preserve it in the diminutive.

Use "syncopated" in a sentence

1. A song title, "That Syncopated Boogie-boo

2. It's very fast, it's exciting, and most importantly, it's syncopated.

3. This work employs a syncopated rhythm with a strong driving force.

4. 15 The next example is the catchy syncopated intro riff taken from the single Teaser.

5. The dialogue is stilted, terse and bare , like the syncopated sparks of sharpening knives.

6. The jet - black cube was vested in flickering red lights, which syncopated as the machine thought.

7. Breakbeat (or breaks) is defined by its use of a syncopated drum pattern and big synthesized basslines

8. Brioche stitches go by lots of different names, such as Double Brioche, Waffle Brioche, and Syncopated Brioche

9. An imaginary Barline is a notation convention designed to help the music reader know what’s syncopated—off the beat—and what’s not

10. Breakbeat is characterized by a prominent, syncopated 4/4 rhythm constructed from Breakbeats—i.e., sampled drum breakdowns from rock, jazz, funk, and hip-hop music.

11. The contrabass, too, in its syncopated, jazz-style solo, explores a higher altitude than is normal in Old Music, but this bass riff does not change a note of the original.

12. An umbrella of affiliated Electronic Dance Music styles broadly characterized by prominent syncopated drum patterns (called Breakbeats) that emerged from Breakbeat Hardcore's initial influence, not including styles directly related to Drum and Bass and Jungle

13. They are like the colossal strides of approaching Fate, and this awfulness is twice raised to a higher power, first by a searching, syncopated phrase in the violins which hovers loweringly over them, and next by a succession of Afrighted minor scales ascending

14. Bluegrass, in music, country and western style that emerged in the United States after World War II, a direct descendant of the old-time string-band music that had been widely played and recorded by such groups as the Carter Family from the late 1920s.Bluegrass is distinguished from the older string-band music by its more syncopated (off-beat) rhythm, its relatively high-pitched tenor (lead