paraphrasal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to paraphrase.
noun
The act or product of paraphrasing.
Example Sentences
- "The quotation which follows is a paraphrasal condensation of the reading in the Jones text (Jones, op. cit. 1: pp. 298–299)."
- "The syntactic nature of suffixation is emphasised through seeking paraphrasal equivalents to standard noun abstracts, leading to the conclusion that manner nominalisations and fact nominalisations are fundamentally different because they show different underlying syntactic structures."
- "The aim of this chapter has been twofold: […] 2. to throw light upon the transmission of tradition and expository and paraphrasal usage of it in the Gospel."
- "Condensation and paraphrasal of a report made to Governor Averell Harriman by Judge J. Irwin Shapiro, Commissioner of Investigation of the State of New York, on his investigation into the affairs of the State Liquor Authority."
- "From German to Martian, with love, I did an impromptu paraphrasal of a poem about a Spanish dancer."
- "This petition, requesting each student to sign his name and home state, will be circulated throughout the campus along with a paraphrasal of the Bill itself."
Etymology
From paraphrase + -al.