appellative

1. 1.

   pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun
2. 2.

   inclined to or serving for the giving of names

   “the appellative faculty of children”

   “the appellative function of some primitive rites”

   Synonymsnaming

   Similardenotative

1. 1.

   identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

   Synonymsappellationdenominationdesignation

   Broadername

   Narrowerstreet namenicknametitle

Other forms of appellative

plural

appellatives·

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 appellative

What does appellative mean?

appellative means "pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appellative?

appellative has 4 syllables: ap-pel-la-tive. The stress falls on "pel".

What is another word for appellative?

Close synonyms include naming, appellation, denomination, designation. 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.

Is appellative a common word?

appellative 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.