resultant role

1. 1.

   the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause

   Synonymsresult

   Broadersemantic role

Questions about resultant role

What does resultant role mean?

resultant role means "the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause".

What is another word for resultant role?

Close synonyms include result. 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 resultant role a common word?

resultant role 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.