adscript

1. 1.

   written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it

   Antonymssuperscriptsubscript

   printing

2. 2.

   (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner

   “an adscript serf”

   Synonymsadscripted

   Similarunfree

Other forms of adscript

comparative

adscripter·

superlative

adscriptest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adscript

What does adscript mean?

adscript means "written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adscript?

adscript has 2 syllables: ad-script. The stress falls on "ad".

What is another word for adscript?

Close synonyms include adscripted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of adscript?

The recorded antonyms are superscript, subscript.

Is adscript a common word?

adscript is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.