compound adjective
1adjective — 1. general. The term adjective was itself an adjective for a hundred years before it became used as a noun for one of the parts of speech. Joseph Priestley, in The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761), was perhaps the first English grammarian to… …
2Compound modifier — A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective or a phrasal adjective or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: That is, more than one word that together modify a noun. Compound modifiers are grammatically… …
3compound modifier — noun adjectival or adverbial phrase of multiple words. Syn: compound adjective, phrasal adjective …
4compound — com·pound /kəm pau̇nd/ vt 1: to agree for a consideration not to prosecute (an offense) ◇ Compounding a felony is a common law crime. 2: to pay (interest) on both the accrued interest and the principal Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam …
5compound — com‧pound [kəmˈpaʊnd ǁ kɑːmˈpaʊnd, ˈkɑːmpaʊnd] verb [transitive] FINANCE to pay interest on both a sum of money and the interest already earned on it: • My bank compounds interest quarterly. * * * Ⅰ. compound UK US /ˈkɒmpaʊnd/ adjective FINANCE ► …
6compound — Ⅰ. compound [1] ► NOUN 1) a thing composed of two or more separate elements. 2) a substance formed from two or more elements chemically united in fixed proportions. 3) a word made up of two or more existing words. ► ADJECTIVE 1) made up or… …
7compound-complex — adjective Date: 1923 of a sentence having two or more main clauses and one or more subordinate clauses …
8compound-symbol — adjective noun …
9compound-complex — adjective of a sentence : having more than one main clause and at least one subordinate clause (as he told me to leave and I left as soon as I could) …
10Compound (linguistics) — In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word formation process being derivation). Compounding… …
