Standard Lemma guide
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
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of morphemes. Typically, the morphemes are bound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Having layers of twin crystals
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: agglutinative
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh1- Proto-Indo-European *polh1ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English synthetic English polysynthetic From poly- + synthetic.
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
