Participial

Synonyms for "participial" (31 found)

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Closest matches (7)

Strong matches (9)

Adjective(2 words)
ed participial adjectiveing participial adjective

Related words (15)

Adjective(4 words)
participial modifierparticiple adjectiveverbal adjectiveverbal instruction
Noun(1 words)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

4 entries
descriptive modifiergrammatical formlinguistic formverb

More specific

2 entries
past participle adjectivepresent participle adjective

Collocations

6 entries
participial adjectiveparticipial phrasepast participlepresent participlereduced relative clauseverbal adjective

Inflections

2 entries
more participialmost participial

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?

Source: tatoeba (328889)

§ 280. A Participial is a derived form of the verb used not for asserting but for expressing either, — 1. An object of thought; or, 2. A modification of such an object. Participials, accordingly, are either, — 1. Noun-participials; as, "To think is to act;" "Their sending the messacre was the cause of the trouble;" or, 2. Adjective-participials, more commonly called Participles; as, "The advancing army;" "The expected messenger."

Source: wiktionary

[…] the verb has two forms, which […] are called Participials, namely, (a) The Infinitv […] (b) The Participle […] .

Source: wiktionary

To have a short appellation, let us call participles and infinitives participials. Among all the myriads of words, a more skillful, many-sided and hard-working class than this could hardly be found, and still—such is the world's reward—they are strangers in a strange land forced to live with their aristocratic cousins, the "finite" verbs. For participials are not verbs in reality.

Source: wiktionary

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