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alliteral

alliteral adjective: relating to, or characterized by, alliteration.

Adjective

alliteral (comparative more alliteral, superlative most alliteral)

  1. Relating to, or characterized by, alliteration.
    • In Isubu, certain cardinal numbers are subject to alliteral concord: they change their form so as to alliterate with the noun they modify.

Forms of alliteral

comparativemore alliteral
superlativemost alliteral

Questions about alliteral

What does alliteral mean?
Alliteral means relating to, or characterized by, alliteration.
What part of speech is alliteral?
Alliteral is an adjective.

Words near alliteral in the dictionary

  1. Allister
  2. allistic
  3. allistics
  4. allists
  5. alliteracy
  6. alliteral
  7. alliterate
  8. alliterated
  9. alliterates
  10. alliterating
  11. alliteration

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