Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a phrase; con sisting of two or more words.
Wiktionary
- adj. Referring to, or used in the manner of, a phrase.
- adj. Being a phrase.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or functioning as a phrase
Examples
“Thanks, Adrian, for that insight into the stress patterns in phrasal verbs.”
“Because the rules and guidelines are not commonly understood, hyphens in phrasal adjectives tend to be ignored or haphazardly applied.”
“9 Responses to “Hyphens in phrasal adjectives” conor b. says:”
“On the other hand, the lists of examples often include items that, however you stretch the definiton, can hardly be classified as phrasal verbs.”
“Snowclone is the unlovely name given to the notion of phrasal templates, or what might be called do-it-yourself cliché kits.”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » X is the new Y, the network diagram
“It is, instead, functioning syntactically in English as a particle, tightly glued to the verb "stumble" and both of them together are called a phrasal verb.”
“If there's really an editor at that paper who enforces a "rule" that object pronouns must follow the intransitive prepositions of so-called phrasal verbs, there should be plenty of evidence.”
“It looks like some kind of phrasal gender harmony.”
“If there’s really an editor at that paper who enforces a “rule” that object pronouns must follow the intransitive prepositions of so-called phrasal verbs, there should be plenty of evidence.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]
“Typically half our lesson is informal where he tells me things he has heard that confuse him, or asks about language topics aimed to help him get on better at work, and for the other half he picks a formal topic such as phrasal verbs and we run through some examples.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phrasal’.
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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Verborum
Types of verbs.
accusative, impersonal, control, captative, transitive, inchoative, compound, predicative, unacusative, unergative, monotransitive, light and 16 more...
Tweets
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kot2 I can say I am from Poland. I am inviting to my page www.konarmeble.pl Jun 18, 2012