[syn: chantlike, intoned, singsong]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Singsong \Sing"song`\, n.
1. Bad singing or poetry.
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2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed
song.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Singsong \Sing"song`\, a.
Drawling; monotonous; having a monotonous cadence.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Singsong \Sing"song`\, v. i.
To write poor poetry. [R.] --Tennyson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
singsong
adj 1: uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting;
"their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of
speaking" [syn: chantlike, intoned, singsong]
n 1: a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
2: informal group singing of popular songs [syn: singalong,
singsong]
v 1: speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong
2: move as if accompanied by a singsong; "The porters singsonged
the travellers' luggage up the mountain"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "singsong":
alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, assonance, assonant,
belabored, blah, broken-record, chanting, chime, chiming,
cliche-ridden, clockwork regularity, constancy, daily round,
dingdong, drearisome, dreary, drone, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty,
even pace, even tenor, everlasting, harping, humdrum,
invariability, invariable, jingle, jingle-jangle, jog-trot,
labored, long-winded, monologue, monotone, monotonous,
monotonousness, monotony, near rhyme, orderliness, pitter-patter,
prolix, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness,
repetitiveness, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, sameliness, sameness,
slant rhyme, smoothness, stale repetition, tedious, tedium,
treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, uneventful,
unnecessary repetition, unvariation, unvarying