Meaning

2 senses
  1. Pertaining to a paraphrase.

  2. Of a Latin conjugation: composed of the verb sum with participial forms of the verbs conjugated (as in e.g. amaturus sum).

More definitions
  • altered by paraphrasing

Translations

2 languages

Forms

more paraphrastic, most paraphrastic
Comparativemore paraphrastic Lesson
Superlativemost paraphrastic Lesson

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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