paraphrastic
paraphrastic adjective: pertaining to a paraphrase.
Adjective
paraphrastic (comparative more paraphrastic, superlative most paraphrastic)
- Pertaining to a paraphrase.
- Of a Latin conjugation: composed of the verb sum with participial forms of the verbs conjugated (as in e.g. amaturus sum).
Forms of paraphrastic
| comparative | more paraphrastic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most paraphrastic |
| alternative form | paraphrasic |
Words formed from paraphrastic
Words that rhyme with paraphrastic
- plastic
- elastic
- fantastic
- bombastic
- mastic
- spastic
- heteroplastic
- inelastic
- periphrastic
- pleonastic
- aclastic
- alloplastic
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- anaclastic
- anaplastic
- anticlastic
- aplastic
- autoplastic
- basiplastic
- ceroplastic
- chiastic
- clastic
- cosmoplastic
- drastic
- encomiastic
- enthusiastic
- epispastic
- gelastic
- gymnastic
- heteroblastic
- holophrastic
- homoblastic
- homoplastic
- macroplastic
- normoplastic
- onomastic
- sarcastic
- synclastic
- achondroplastic
- agelastic
- antineoplastic
- antiphrastic
- antispastic
- apicoplastic
- autoschediastic
- cataclastic
- chiliastic
- conplastic
- cranioplastic
- docimastic
- dramastic
- dynastic
- dysplastic
- ecclesiastic
- ectoblastic
- ectoplastic
- electroplastic
- emplastic
- epiblastic
- epinastic
- esemplastic
Questions about paraphrastic
- What does paraphrastic mean?
- Paraphrastic means pertaining to a paraphrase.
- What part of speech is paraphrastic?
- Paraphrastic is an adjective.
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