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SYNTAGMATIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Related as members of a syntagma

Example:

syntagmatic word associations

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Antonym:

paradigmatic (related as members of a substitution class)

Pertainym:

syntagma (a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit)

Derivation:

syntagm; syntagma (a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit)

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