fearsomelooking
The word 'fearsome-looking' is divided into four syllables: fear-some-look-ing, with primary stress on 'fear' and 'look'. It's a compound adjective formed with standard English syllabification rules based on VCC patterns and suffixation.
Definitions
- 1
Inspiring fear or dread; menacing in appearance.
“The fearsome-looking dragon guarded the treasure.”
Stress pattern
Primary stress falls on the first syllable of 'fearsome' and the first syllable of 'looking'.
Syllables
fear — Closed syllable, stressed.. some — Closed syllable, unstressed.. look — Closed syllable, stressed.. ing — Closed syllable, unstressed.
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Vowel-Consonant-Consonant (VCC)
Syllables are often divided before consonant blends or digraphs following a vowel.
Stress Placement
Primary stress generally falls on the first syllable of a root word.
Suffixation
Suffixes like '-ing' typically form separate syllables.
- The hyphen in 'fearsome-looking' is a morphological marker and does not affect syllabification.
- Regional variations in vowel pronunciation may occur but do not alter the syllable division.
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