appositively

1. 1.

   in an appositive manner

   “this adjective is used appositively”

   Synonymsin apposition

Questions about appositively

What does appositively mean?

appositively means "in an appositive manner".

How many syllables are in appositively?

appositively has 6 syllables and divides as ap-po-si-ti-ve-ly 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 appositively?

Close synonyms include in apposition. 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 appositively a common word?

appositively 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.