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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accordant, according, alliteral, alliterating, alliterative, assonantal, attuned, belabored, blended, blending, chanting, chiming, cliche-ridden, concordant, consonant, dingdong, harmonic, harmonious, harmonizing, harping, homophonic, humdrum, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in concord, in sync, in tune, in unison, jingle-jangle, jingling, jog-trot, labored, monodic, monophonic, monotone, monotonous, punning, rhymed, rhyming, singsong, symphonious, synchronized, synchronous, tedious, tuned, unisonant, unisonous

Dictionary Results for assonant:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

assonant
    adj 1: having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound)
           occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the
           assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'"
    2: having the same vowel sound occurring with different
       consonants in successive words or stressed syllables

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Assonant \As"so*nant\, a. [L. assonans, p. pr. of assonare to
   sound to, to correspond to in sound; ad + sonare to sound,
   sonus sound: cf. F. assonant. See Sound.]
   1. Having a resemblance of sounds.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called
      assonance; not consonant.
      [1913 Webster]

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