gradable
IPA: grˈeɪdʌbʌɫ
noun
- (linguistics) A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.
adjective
- Able to form degrees or grades
- (linguistics, of a word or phrase) Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.
- steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle
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Examples of "gradable" in Sentences
- Adjectives come in two varieties gradable and non gradable.
- Gradable adjectives can occur in comparative and superlative forms.
- It is one of the most abundant bio gradable materials in the world.
- Intensifiers roughly qualify a point on a gradable semantic property.
- Assessment can be used as the gradable object referenced in the Grading OSID.
- A non gradable adjective might have another connotation in which it is gradable.
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