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nounify

nounify verb: to turn into a noun.

Verb

nounify (third-person singular simple present nounifies, present participle nounifying, simple past and past participle nounified)

  1. (rare, transitive) To turn into a noun.
    • In modern parlance, the difference between nouns, adjectives, and verbs has blurred somewhat: nouns take on the appearance of adjectives, verbs become nounified, and so on.1997, Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, Timothy-James Lee, Excel 97 Annoyances
    • [...] Authors have a maddening tendency to nounify verbs and to privilege verbified nouns in their languaged discourse; they have proclivity toward vocabularistically challenged prose [...]1998, Justice quarterly, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of nounify

third-person singular presentnounifies
present participlenounifying
past participlenounified
pastnounified

Questions about nounify

What does nounify mean?
Nounify means to turn into a noun.
What part of speech is nounify?
Nounify is a verb.
What is the past tense of nounify?
The past tense of nounify is nounified.

Words near nounify in the dictionary

  1. nounier
  2. nouniest
  3. nounification
  4. nounified
  5. nounifies
  6. nounify
  7. nounifying
  8. nouniness
  9. nouning
  10. nounize
  11. nounized

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