of a metric foot Characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one.

synonym: anapaestic.

Roget 597: poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic etc. n.; metrical; a catalectin^†; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic^†; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic^†; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic^†, Pindaric.    ... show more