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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rhythmic \Rhyth"mic\ (-m[i^]k), Rhythmical \Rhyth"mic*al\ (-m[i^]*kal), adjective [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}, noun, 6 (c) .
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rhythmic
adjective: recurring with measured regularity; "the rhythmic chiming of church bells"- John Galsworthy; "rhythmical prose" [syn: {rhythmical}] [ant: {unrhythmical}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "rhythmic": 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
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