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mononymic

mononymic adjective: pertaining to a mononym.

Adjective

mononymic (comparative more mononymic, superlative most mononymic)

  1. Pertaining to a mononym.
  2. (not comparable) Having or known by a single name.
    • A few newspapers use courtesy titles - Mr. Black, Mr. Hussein - except when they're stymied by a mononymic celeb like Cher or Eminem.2002 November 17, Jan Freeman, “Call him Saddam”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2012
    Synonyms:
    mononymous, uninymic

Synonyms of mononymic

Forms of mononymic

comparativemore mononymic
superlativemost mononymic

Origin of mononymic

From mononym + -ic.

Words formed from mononymic

Questions about mononymic

What does mononymic mean?
Mononymic means pertaining to a mononym.
What part of speech is mononymic?
Mononymic is an adjective.

Words near mononymic in the dictionary

  1. mononucleotidic
  2. mononucleotidyl
  3. mononuclidic
  4. mononumerosis
  5. mononym
  6. mononymic
  7. mononymically
  8. mononymous
  9. mononymously
  10. mononyms
  11. mononymy

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