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paratactic

paratactic adjective: pertaining to or using parataxis.

Adjective

paratactic (comparative more paratactic, superlative most paratactic)

  1. Pertaining to or using parataxis.
    • BARR (Tonight and tomorrow night) Over bare stutters of piano and drums, Brendan Fowler of Barr lets loose an endlessly self-regarding logorrhea, questioning his every thought and instinct in a naked, paratactic melancholy.2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of paratactic

comparativemore paratactic
superlativemost paratactic

Questions about paratactic

What does paratactic mean?
Paratactic means pertaining to or using parataxis.
What part of speech is paratactic?
Paratactic is an adjective.

Words near paratactic in the dictionary

  1. parasystolic
  2. paratabulation
  3. paratabulations
  4. paratacamite
  5. paratacamites
  6. paratactic
  7. paratactical
  8. paratactically
  9. parataekwondo
  10. parataenial
  11. parataniwha

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