Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

participial adjective

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables
par-ticip-i-al ad-jec-tive
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A participle used as an adjective; it may be either a present participle or a past participle, and used either attributively or predicatively.

Inflected Forms

participial adjectives (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

gerund adverbial participle nominalized past participle

Questions

What does participial adjective mean?
A participle used as an adjective; it may be either a present participle or a past participle, and used either attributively or predicatively.

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