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semimodal

adj

Etymology

From semi- + modal.

  1. derived from modus
  2. derived from modālis
  3. borrowed from modal
  4. prefixed as semimodal — “semi + modal”

Definitions

  1. Having only some of the characteristics of the major modal verbs.

  2. A verb having only some of the characteristics of the major modal verbs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for semimodal. 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