appositive

1. 1.

   relating to or being in apposition

   “an appositive noun”

   Synonymsappositional

Questions about appositive

What does appositive mean?

appositive means "relating to or being in apposition".

How many syllables are in appositive?

appositive has 4 syllables: ap-po-si-tive. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for appositive?

Close synonyms include appositional. 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 appositive a common word?

appositive 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.