thought-bearing
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a semantic meaning, as opposed to a syntactic function.
Example Sentences
- "They too are vitally related to the thought-bearing function of language."
- "Know which words in the phrase are the thought-bearing words. These are the important words, which help the audience to get the thought easily. They are generally the nouns and verbs, but not every noun and verb is stressed."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more thought-bearing (comparative)
most thought-bearing (superlative)