adj
Meaning 1
Of, or pertaining to, morphology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
morphological
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌmɔːfəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
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General-American: /ˌmɔɹfəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/
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CMU ARPABET: M AO2 R F AH0 L AA1 JH IH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective
Meaning 2
relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- morphological differences
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: morphologic, structural
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
pertaining to geological structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- geomorphological features of the Black Hills
- morphological features of granite
- structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, structural
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: morphologic
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English morphology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English morphological From morphology + -ical.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُورْفُولُوجِي (murfulujī) — relating to morphology
- Arabic: صَرْفِيّ (ṣarfiyy) — relating to morphology
- Asturian: morfolóxicu — relating to morphology
- Azerbaijani: morfoloji — relating to morphology
- Belarusian: марфалагі́чны (marfalahíčny) — relating to morphology
- Bengali: অঙ্গসংস্থানসংক্রান্ত (oṅgośoṅsthanośoṅkranto) — relating to morphology
- Catalan: morfològic — relating to morphology
- Chinese Mandarin: 形態學的 /形态学的 (xíngtàixué de) — relating to morphology
- Czech: morfologický — relating to morphology
- Danish: morfologisk — relating to morphology
- Dutch: morfologisch — relating to morphology
- Finnish: morfologinen — relating to morphology
- Finnish: muoto-opillinen — relating to morphology
- French: morphologique — relating to morphology
- Galician: morfolóxico — relating to morphology
- Georgian: მორფოლოგიური (morpologiuri) — relating to morphology
- German: morphologisch — relating to morphology
- Hungarian: morfológiai — relating to morphology
- Hungarian: alaktani — relating to morphology
- Interlingua: morphologic — relating to morphology
- Italian: morfologico — relating to morphology
- Kazakh: морфологиялық (morfologiälyq) — relating to morphology
- Korean: 형태학의 (hyeongtaehag-ui) — relating to morphology
- Latin: morphologicus — relating to morphology
- Latvian: morfoloģisks — relating to morphology
- Norwegian Bokmål: morfologisk — relating to morphology
- Norwegian Nynorsk: morfologisk — relating to morphology
- Occitan: morfologic — relating to morphology
- Polish: morfologiczny — relating to morphology
- Portuguese: morfológico — relating to morphology
- Romanian: morfologic — relating to morphology
- Russian: морфологи́ческий (morfologíčeskij) — relating to morphology
- Spanish: morfológico — relating to morphology
- Swedish: morfologisk — relating to morphology
- Ukrainian: морфологі́чний (morfolohíčnyj) — relating to morphology
Real reading context