Hypotaxis

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Grammar The dependent or subordinate relationship of clauses with connectives.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In grammar, dependent construction: opposed to parataxis.
    • Word Usage
    "It is no good trying to issue bans on hypotaxis, or on any other phenomenon, and make them apply to one sex only."
    Antonym
    parataxis   
     
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