definitional
[ˌdɛfɪˈnɪʃənəɫ]
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to a definition.
Example Sentences
- "Individually, some of these definitions fall into the common definitional trap of being overly precise."
- "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe as mined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories."
- "Some researchers have suggested that sentences like (27) may be ungrammatical because they are not in typical usage[…]. This comes down to a definitional issue of what it means to label a string as “grammatical”. If “grammatical” means “generated by the grammar in normal situations,” then such sentences are clearly ungrammatical because we can’t generate such sentences in normal language usage. Alternatively, if “grammatical” means “all of whose syntactic components are part of the grammar,” then such sentences are grammatical."
Etymology
From definition + -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: [ˌdɛfɪˈnɪʃənəɫ]