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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: recurring with measured regularity; "the rhythmic chiming of church bells"- John Galsworthy; "rhythmical prose" [syn: rhythmical, rhythmic] [ant: unrhythmic, unrhythmical]

Merriam Webster's

or rhythmical adjective Date: 1589 1. marked by or moving in pronounced rhythm 2. of, relating to, or involving rhythm • rhythmically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (also rhythmical) 1 relating to or characterized by rhythm. 2 regularly occurring. Derivatives: rhythmically adv. Etymology: F rhythmique or L rhythmicus (as RHYTHM)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rhythmic Rhyth"mic (-m[i^]k), Rhythmical Rhyth"mic*al (-m[i^]*kal), a. [Gr. ????: cf. L. rhythmicus, F. rhythmique.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm Day and night I worked my rhythmic thought. --Mrs. Browning. Rhythmical accent. (Mus.) See Accent, n., 6 (c) .

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

or rhythmical A rhythmic movement or sound is repeated at regular intervals, forming a regular pattern or beat. Good breathing is slow, rhythmic and deep. ADJ • rhythmically She stood, swaying her hips, moving rhythmically. ADV: ADV after v

Moby Thesaurus

alternate, antispastic, beating, cadenced, cadent, circling, cyclic, dactylic, epochal, even, every other, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, palpitant, periodical, pitapat, prosodic, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, regular, rhythmical, rotary, scanning, seasonal, serial, spondaic, staccato, steady, throbbing, trochaic, undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling