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adverbal

adverbal is the rare form of adverbial.

Meaning of adverbial

Adjective

adverbial (comparative more adverbial, superlative most adverbial)

  1. Of or relating to an adverb.
    • As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’1876, “Ad′verb”, in John M[erry] Ross, editor, The Globe Enyclopædia of Universal Information, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Estes & Lauriat, […], page 25, column 1

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Origin of adverbal

From adverb + -al.

Words formed from adverbal

Questions about adverbal

What is adverbal the rare form of?
Adverbal is the rare form of adverbial.

Words near adverbal in the dictionary

  1. Adventus Saxonum
  2. Adver.
  3. adverb
  4. adverb phrase
  5. adverb phrases
  6. adverbal
  7. adverbative
  8. adverbed
  9. adverbhood
  10. adverbial
  11. adverbial accusative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adverbal (page history and authors); adverbial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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