compositional
/ˌkɒm.pəˈzɪ.ʃən.əl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to composition.
adj
Being the sum of its parts.
Example Sentences
- "The compositional aspects of this work are less than ideal."
- "The phrase "sum of its parts" is entirely compositional."
- "A wet súit meaning a suit that is wet is a compositional phrase; a wét suit meaning a garment worn by skin divers is a compound."
- "We have already noted that compounds tend to have meanings that are not entirely compositional and would therefore need to be listed."
- "Sentence meaning is compositional because, to a large extent, it depends on a combination of the meanings of sentence constituents, which implies the concept of semantic structure."
- "To cite a textbook example, white house and White House are both written with internal spaces, but the first is argued to be a phrase because it is semantically compositional and has phrase-final stress, while the latter is argued to be a word because it has noncompositional semantics and compound-initial stress."
Etymology
From composition + -al.
Inflected Forms
more compositional (comparative)
most compositional (superlative)