prepositional

1. 1.

   of or relating to or formed with a preposition

   “prepositional phrase”

   linguistics

Questions about prepositional

What does prepositional mean?

prepositional means "of or relating to or formed with a preposition".

How many syllables are in prepositional?

prepositional has 6 syllables and divides as pre-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.

Is prepositional a common word?

prepositional 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.