Associations to the word «Syncopated»

Wiktionary

SYNCOPATE, verb. (transitive) (linguistics) to omit a sound or a letter from a word; to use syncope
SYNCOPATE, verb. (transitive) (music) to stress or accentuate the weak beat of a rhythm; to use syncopation

Dictionary definition

SYNCOPATE, verb. Omit a sound or letter in a word; "syncopate a word".
SYNCOPATE, verb. Modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin