syntagmatic

1. 1.

   related as members of a syntagma

   “syntagmatic word associations”

   Antonymsparadigmatic

Questions about syntagmatic

What does syntagmatic mean?

syntagmatic means "related as members of a syntagma".

How many syllables are in syntagmatic?

syntagmatic has 4 syllables and divides as syn-tag-ma-tic 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 the opposite of syntagmatic?

The recorded antonyms are paradigmatic.

Is syntagmatic a common word?

syntagmatic 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.