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Adjective(1) having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable

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(1) He tried multiple times to draw me into a conversation but I only responded with monosyllabic answers.(2) He answered her questions with monosyllabic responses.(3) A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.(4) He's dead certain and often nearly monosyllabic .(5) Why are there so many syllables in the word monosyllabic ?(6) The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines.(7) The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.(8) He is permanently monosyllabic unless the subject happens to be narrow-gauge North American railways, and he never uses a word where a silent, dismissive glare would do.(9) Having inspected the larder, Mary decided to prepare a steak pudding and when Bertha's monosyllabic husband, Davy, took a second helping her fate was sealed.(10) Like other languages of the Sino-Tibetan group, Burmese is monosyllabic .(11) He's very monosyllabic , and could put to sleep an over stimulated mule.(12) Chinese is a monosyllabic language, where a single sound represents one word.(13) This is a book of footballers when they were stars and not the monosyllabic , monotone u2018celebritiesu2019 that exist today(14) Chinese is monosyllabic , Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese.(15) In Mexico City, where kidnapping occurs more frequently than in Iraq, security for the rich is essential and so the monosyllabic Creasy is hired as a bodyguard for eight-year-old Pita (Fanning).(16) We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.