Multal

Quick meaning: Multal is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Expressing a large (but not maximal) quantity or degree.

Meaning

(linguistics) Expressing a large (but not maximal) quantity or degree.

Example Sentences

Finally, the wish to classify and subdivide into further subcategories at times leads the authors to use labels that border on jargon (e.g. multal and paucal groups of pronouns, p. 220).

The next section includes the study of the role of metonymy in the motivation of the lexical-semantic changes leading to the present-day multal quantifier sense of lot in the context of the quasi-determiner a lot of;

Antonyms for multal

Common opposites include paucal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abundantial, extensive, considerable, mass, large, great.

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