ALL meanings of polysynthetic
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P p - adjective polysynthetic (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3). 1
- adjective polysynthetic of or relating to polysynthesism. 1
- adjective polysynthetic denoting languages, such as Inuktitut, in which single words may express the meaning of whole phrases or clauses by virtue of multiple affixes 0