Exact Match:
- gerund
- a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun)
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- substantive
collapse - a noun or a pronoun that is used in place of a noun
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; "substantive law" related words >
- ab ovo,
- abstract noun,
- adherent noun,
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- appreciable,
- attributive,
- basal,
- basic,
- bedrock,
- central,
- collective noun,
- common noun,
- concrete,
- conjunctive,
- constituent,
- constitutive,
- copulative,
- correct,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- essential,
- focal,
- formal,
- functional,
- fundamental,
- gerund,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- gut,
- hypostasis,
- indispensable,
- intransitive,
- life-and-death,
- life-or-death,
- linking,
- material,
- nominal,
- noun,
- noun phrase,
- of the essence,
- of vital importance,
- original,
- palpable,
- participial,
- ponderable,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- primal,
- primary,
- primitive,
- pronominal,
- pronoun,
- proper noun,
- quotation noun,
- radical,
- real,
- sensible,
- solid,
- structural,
- substantial,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- tangible,
- transitive,
- underlying,
- verbal,
- vital
- hypostasis
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- (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
- the accumulation of blood in an organ
- the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene related words >
- abstract noun,
- adherent noun,
- air,
- atom,
- atomic particles,
- axiom,
- brute matter,
- building block,
- center,
- chemical element,
- collective noun,
- common noun,
- component,
- constituent,
- core,
- earth,
- element,
- elementary particle,
- elementary unit,
- elixir,
- essence,
- essential,
- fire,
- flower,
- focus,
- fundamental,
- fundamental particle,
- gerund,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- heart,
- hyle,
- inner essence,
- kernel,
- marrow,
- material,
- material world,
- materiality,
- matter,
- meat,
- molecule,
- monad,
- natural world,
- nature,
- nominal,
- noun,
- noun phrase,
- nub,
- nucleus,
- nuts and bolts,
- physical world,
- pith,
- plenum,
- postulate,
- principle,
- pronoun,
- proper noun,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- quotation noun,
- sap,
- soul,
- spirit,
- stuff,
- substance,
- substantive,
- substratum,
- the four elements,
- the nitty-gritty,
- unit of being,
- water
- nominal
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- existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"
- being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value"
- pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
- relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls" related words >
- abstract noun,
- adherent noun,
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- alleged,
- apparent,
- attributive,
- budget,
- byname,
- cheap,
- cognominal,
- collective noun,
- common noun,
- conjunctive,
- copulative,
- correct,
- diminutive,
- easy,
- economic,
- economy,
- epithetic,
- formal,
- frugal,
- functional,
- gerund,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- honorific,
- hypocoristic,
- hypostasis,
- in name only,
- inconsiderable,
- inexpensive,
- insignificant,
- insubstantial,
- intransitive,
- linking,
- low,
- low-priced,
- manageable,
- minimal,
- minor,
- minuscule,
- moderate,
- modest,
- nominative,
- noun,
- noun phrase,
- ostensible,
- participial,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pretended,
- professed,
- pronominal,
- pronoun,
- proper noun,
- proposed,
- propositional,
- puppet,
- purported,
- quasi,
- quotation noun,
- reasonable,
- representational,
- seeming,
- self-called,
- self-christened,
- self-styled,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- small,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- structural,
- substantive,
- supposed,
- supposititious,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- tiny,
- titular,
- token,
- transitive,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unexpensive,
- verbal,
- within means,
- worth the money,
- would-be
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