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postsyntactic

postsyntactic adjective: formed or occurring after the syntactic stage.

Adjective

postsyntactic (not comparable)

  1. Formed or occurring after the syntactic stage.
    • Japanese has postsyntactic compounds that consist of whole phrases.

Origin of postsyntactic

From post- + syntactic.

Questions about postsyntactic

What does postsyntactic mean?
Postsyntactic means formed or occurring after the syntactic stage.
What part of speech is postsyntactic?
Postsyntactic is an adjective.

Words near postsyntactic in the dictionary

  1. postsynchronizes
  2. postsynchronizing
  3. postsynchs
  4. postsyncing
  5. postsyncs
  6. postsyntactic
  7. postsynthetic
  8. postsystolic
  9. posttariff
  10. posttarsal
  11. posttax

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