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categorial

categorial adjective: categorical, absolute, without exception.

Adjective

categorial (comparative more categorial, superlative most categorial)

  1. categorical, absolute, without exception
    • 1990 : The urgency of feminism to establish a universal status for patriarchy in order to strengthen the appearance of feminism's own claims to be representative has occasionally motivated the shortcut to a categorial or fictive universality of the structures of domination, held to produce women's...
  2. categorical, pertaining to a category
    • So, there is considerable evidence in favour of drawing a categorial distinction between the preposition for and the complementiser for: they are different lexical items (i.e. words) belonging to different categories.2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 55
  3. pertaining to categorial grammar

Forms of categorial

comparativemore categorial
superlativemost categorial

Words formed from categorial

Phrases with categorial

Words that rhyme with categorial

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Questions about categorial

What does categorial mean?
Categorial means categorical, absolute, without exception.
What part of speech is categorial?
Categorial is an adjective.

Words near categorial in the dictionary

  1. categorematic
  2. categorematical
  3. categorematically
  4. categorems
  5. categoria
  6. categorial
  7. categorial grammar
  8. categorial grammars
  9. categorially
  10. categoric
  11. categorical

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