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monosyllabic

 adjective
     
Related topics: Linguistics
mon‧o‧syl‧lab‧ic
1SL someone who speaks in a monosyllabic way does not say very much and does not try to be friendly:
He made monosyllabic replies to my questions.
2 technicalSL a monosyllabic word has only one syllable
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