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unstrandable

unstrandable adjective: not able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.

Adjective

unstrandable (comparative more unstrandable, superlative most unstrandable)

  1. Not able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
    • Unstrandable function words include the determiners and quantifiers that introduce nominal constituents, and the complementisers that introduce clauses.2016, Andrew Radford, Analysing English Sentences, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143
    Antonyms:
    strandable

Antonyms of unstrandable

Forms of unstrandable

comparativemore unstrandable
superlativemost unstrandable

Origin of unstrandable

From un- + strandable.

Questions about unstrandable

What does unstrandable mean?
Unstrandable means not able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
What part of speech is unstrandable?
Unstrandable is an adjective.

Words near unstrandable in the dictionary

  1. unstraining
  2. unstrains
  3. unstraitened
  4. unstraked
  5. unstrand
  6. unstrandable
  7. unstranded
  8. unstranding
  9. unstrands
  10. unstrange
  11. unstranged

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