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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

adjectivelike en · ADJ

Etymology

From adjective + -like.

Meanings

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an adjective.
    • A number of both lexemes and word forms seem to be located within the two endpoints of this scale, and can thus be identified only as “more nounlike, less adjectivelike” or “less nounlike, more adjectivelike”. 2022 June 16, Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári, “Between adjective and noun”, in Acta Linguistica Academica, volume 69, number 2, →DOI, pages 188-205:

Forms

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most adjectivelike Degree=Sup lexicographic
more adjectivelike Degree=Cmp lexicographic