in apposition

1. 1.

   in an appositive manner

   “this adjective is used appositively”

   Synonymsappositively

Questions about in apposition

What does in apposition mean?

in apposition means "in an appositive manner".

What is another word for in apposition?

Close synonyms include appositively. 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 in apposition a common word?

in apposition 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.