Agential
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Agential is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) That forms agent nouns.
- (linguistics) An affix that forms agent nouns.
Example Sentences
Even if the suffix be formally identical with the agential suffix, it has not the same function.
Semantically, a majority of agentials refer to avian vocalization. Examples are: screamer, whistler, warbler, trumpeter, and the suffixless chat.
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
Word Forms
- agentials
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include agentive, actantial, agentival, interagentive, institorial, actional.
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