Noncompositional
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Noncompositional is an adjective meaning Alternative form of non-compositional.
Meaning
Alternative form of non-compositional.
Example Sentences
To cite a textbook example, white house and White House are both written with internal spaces, but the first is argued to be a phrase because it is semantically compositional and has phrase-final stress, while the latter is argued to be a word because it has noncompositional semantics and compound-initial stress.
Antonyms for noncompositional
Common opposites include compositional.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include non-lexical, non-tonal, non-material, nonsynthesised, non-conjunctive, non-representational.
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