Morphological

//ˌmɔːfəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, or pertaining to, morphology. not-comparable

    "In much the same way, morphological competence is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions about morphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know that van and can have the respective plural forms vans and cans, but that the plural of man is men and not *mans. [...]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals wordnet
  2. 2
    pertaining to geological structure wordnet
  3. 3
    relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language wordnet

Synonyms

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morphologicaffixalanatomicarchitectonicarchitecturalconstructional

Example

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"His conlang has many morphological components."

Etymology

From morphology + -ical.

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