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Meaning of "postpositive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTPOSITIVE

postpositive  [pəʊstˈpɒzɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTPOSITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postpositive can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POSTPOSITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Post-positive adjective

A post-positive or postpositive describes an adjective or adjectival phrase that appears, within the same clause, after the noun that it modifies. In some languages, this is the normal syntax, but in English it is more unusual, largely confined to archaic, poetic, or certain traditional phrases. An English example of a postpositive appears in the following sentence: "They heard creatures unseen". Sentences such as "They need a house big enough for their family" are not, strictly speaking, examples of postpositive adjective usage, as the noun and the adjective are in separate clauses. Recognizing postpositive adjectives in English is important for determining the correct plural for a compound expression.

Definition of postpositive in the English dictionary

The definition of postpositive in the dictionary is placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast, or as part of a complement, as in those men are bad. Other definition of postpositive is a postpositive modifier.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTPOSITIVE


acquisitive
əˈkwɪzɪtɪv
appositive
əˈpɒzɪtɪv
compositive
kəmˈpɒzɪtɪv
contrapositive
ˌkɒntrəˈpɒzɪtɪv
depositive
dɪˈpɒzɪtɪv
diapositive
ˌdaɪəˈpɒzɪtɪv
dispositive
dɪsˈpɒzɪtɪv
electropositive
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈpɒzɪtɪv
expositive
ɪksˈpɒzɪtɪv
HIV-positive
ˌeɪtʃaɪviːˈpɒzɪtɪv
inquisitive
ɪnˈkwɪzɪtɪv
oppositive
əˈpɒzɪtɪv
photopositive
ˌfəʊtəʊˈpɒzɪtɪv
positive
ˈpɒzɪtɪv
prepositive
priːˈpɒzɪtɪv
Rh-positive
ˌɑːrˌeɪtʃˈpɒzɪtɪv
seropositive
ˌsɪərəʊˈpɔzɪtɪv
suppositive
səˈpɒzɪtɪv
transpositional
trænsˈpɒzɪtɪv
transpositive
trænsˈpɒzɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTPOSITIVE

postperson
postpollination
postponable
postpone
postponement
postponence
postponer
postpose
postposition
postpositional
postpositionally
postpositively
postprandial
postprandial thermogenesis
postprimary
postprison
postproduction
postpuberty
postpubescent
postpunk

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTPOSITIVE

active
additive
aperitive
capacitive
case-sensitive
cognitive
competitive
definitive
false positive
fugitive
insensitive
intransitive
intuitive
nutritive
primitive
prohibitive
punitive
repetitive
sensitive
time-sensitive
transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of postpositive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postpositive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTPOSITIVE

Find out the translation of postpositive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of postpositive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «postpositive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

后置
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

postpositive
570 millions of speakers

English

postpositive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

postpositive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

postpositive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

послелогом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

postpositive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

postpositive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

postposé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Postpositive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nachgestellt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

postpositive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

후치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Postpositif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về phụ ngư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

postpositive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोस्टोजिव्हिटीव्ह
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

edat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

postpositive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postpositive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

послелогом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

postpositive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

postpositive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

postpositive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

postpositive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

postpositive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of postpositive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTPOSITIVE»

The term «postpositive» is normally little used and occupies the 145.509 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTPOSITIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «postpositive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «postpositive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about postpositive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTPOSITIVE»

Discover the use of postpositive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postpositive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek: A Functional Analysis of ...
Postpositive possessives47 The pragmatic rule that— apart from the exceptional cases discussed in 3.3.2 and 3.4 — the modifier precedes the noun if it is the most salient element of the NP, and otherwise follows the noun also holds true for  ...
Stéphanie J. Bakker, 2009
2
English Grammar: An Outline
A third, much less frequent, function is (y) post-head modifier in NP structure (the postpositive use). Compare ( I ) i [She became] anxious Predicative ii [an] anxious [parent] Attributive iii [anyone] anxious [to leave immediately] Postpositive In ...
Rodney Huddleston, 1988
3
Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In Honor of ...
the negation ou — normally a postpositive — is not even a clitic, and there other instances of fuzziness around the edges. But the existence of two strong, unambiguous cores is beyond doubt. Some postpositives are enclitics. For example, TE ...
Philip Baldi, Pietro U. Dini, 2004
4
A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
In contrast to the prepositive or postpositive accents, those which are placed on a stressed syllable can be called impositive. Some manuscripts repeat a prepositive or postpositive accent on the stressed syllable; in the standard editions this ...
Paul Joüon, 2006
5
Hectic, Hippic and Hygienic: Adjectives in Victorian ...
Furthermore, the possibility of paraphrasing postposed adjectives as a relative clause also implies that relative clauses containing be can likewise be reduced to postpositive adjectives. One of those men who are too clever to be believed ...
Chris Kunze, 2009
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Postpositive Adjectives come after the nouns they modify, generally because they follow Romance rather than Germanic (or English) syntax. They exist in English largely as a remnant of the Norman French influence during the Middle Ages, ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
7
Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute
Scott N. Callaham. and postpositive inf. and that the latter is incorrectly credited with this aspect of expressing duration."8 Despite extensive classification in scholarship of the various modal and non-modal uses for both kinds of paronomastic ...
Scott N. Callaham, 2010
8
Breastfeeding and Human Lactation
Extending the kinds of research perspectives contributes to developing a broader knowledge base for providing relevant health care. Positivist and Postpositive Perspective Positivism is the foundation of traditional science methods that are ...
Jan Riordan, 2005
9
Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī: Edition and Analysis of ...
-jais- : postpositive word of comparison This is originally pronominal adjective derived from the relative morph j1- + the afffijix -ais- denoting quality. By transposition it can be used as postpositive word meaning “like”, “similar”. The context of the ...
Jaroslav Strnad, 2013
10
Tonkawa, an Indian language of Texas
Which concepts are expressed by an initial morpheme and which by an affixed element seems to depend on whether the language possesses a postpositive or an initial or free morpheme for the meaning required. Their order is determined by ...
Harry Hoijer

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTPOSITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term postpositive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What Is Content Marketing?
adj (postpositive). 1. mentally or emotionally satisfied with things as they are. 2. assenting to or willing to accept circumstances, a proposed ... «Business 2 Community, Sep 14»
2
Get your freak on
... the actual painting is meditation,” says Gleeson, overseeing his exhibition Postpositive: Freaky You Are Always at Sa Sa Bassac until May 11. «The Advisor, Apr 14»
3
The Law Is Above the Lawyers
... a prepositive or postpositive modifier normally applies only to the nearest reasonable referent" -- followed by a short explanation of the rule. «American Spectator, Oct 12»
4
CHARLES NGANDWE DICTIONARY [CND] PART III
ABLAZE: adv. (postpositive) Being on fire: Ukubilimuka. The house is ablaze – Iŋanda ya bilima. Umulumēndo ēshile alebilimukafye ngo mulilo ... «UKZAMBIANS, Jul 11»

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