rhythmic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of RHYTHMIC

marked by or occurring with a noticeable regularity in the rise and fall of sound <lulled to sleep by the rhythmic sound of her mother's voice reading the Bible>

Synonyms cadenced, cadent, measured, metrical (or metric)

Related Words even, metronomic (also metronomical), regular, steady, uniform; lilting, musical, swaying

Antonyms arrhythmic, nonmetrical, unmeasured, unrhythmic

Variants of RHYTHMIC

rhythmic or rhythmical

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