Unsyncoped

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Not shortened or reduced by the loss of an internal sound or syllable
2. Retaining all original syllables without phonetic reduction through syncope
3. Pronounced with all sounds intact, without the elision of medial vowels or consonants

Etymology: "Unsyncoped" is not a standard dictionary entry. It is a rare English formation built from three parts: the prefix "un-" (not), the noun "syncope," and the participle ending "-ed." Read literally, it describes something that has not undergone syncope. "Syncope" comes from Greek "synkopē," meaning a cutting short, from "syn-" (together) and "koptein" (to cut). In linguistics, syncope means the loss of a sound or syllable from the middle of a word, as when "every" is often pronounced "ev-ry." In music, the related term "syncopation" refers to shifting accents so that beats are cut off or displaced. A word that keeps all its sounds, such as "every" spoken in full, would be the sort of form that "unsyncoped" describes.