appositional

1. 1.

   relating to or being in apposition

   “an appositive noun”

   Synonymsappositive

Questions about appositional

What does appositional mean?

appositional means "relating to or being in apposition".

How many syllables are in appositional?

appositional has 6 syllables and divides as ap-po-si-ti-o-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for appositional?

Close synonyms include appositive. 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 appositional a common word?

appositional 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.