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polysemic

adj
/pəˈlɪs.ɪ.mɪk/UK/pɒ.lɪˈsiː.mɪk/US

Etymology

From polyseme + -ic.

  1. learned borrowing from σῆμα
  2. prefixed as polyseme — “poly + seme”
  3. suffixed as polysemic — “polyseme + ic”

Definitions

  1. Having a number of senses (meanings) or understandings.

    • As a series of polysemic and paradoxical sketches, Jackass does not lend itself to one particular theoretical analysis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polysemic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA