paraphrastic
- adjective
- /ˌpærəˈfræstɪk/
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parafrástico
- The teacher encouraged students to produce paraphrastic versions of the text to enhance their understanding.
Past and present participles are often inflected as adjectives, even when they form paraphrastic verb forms.
- Past and present participles are often inflected as adjectives, even when they form paraphrastic verb forms.
- Passive paraphrastic just means using multiple words to carry the meaning.
Examples
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She wrote a paraphrastic summary of the article to make the main ideas clearer for her classmates.
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Passive paraphrastic just means using multiple words to carry the meaning.
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Past and present participles are often inflected as adjectives, even when they form paraphrastic verb forms.
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A few of these fallacies have survived and may be familiar to you: the intentional fallacy, the paraphrastic fallacy, the affective fallacy.
Academic text (2000) -
In order to clarify his point, he offered a paraphrastic explanation of the complex theory.
Antonyms
How Reworded
Surface Forms
Morphology
paraphrastic = paraphrase (transparent) = paraphrase + ic
The adjective is clearly derived from the noun 'paraphrase' with a standard adjectival suffix, so the meaning 'relating to paraphrase' is directly recoverable.
Etymology
The word paraphrastic comes from the Greek parts para- 'beside' and phrasis 'speech', and it is like the common word paraphrase, which explains something using other words. So a paraphrastic version uses different words to give the same meaning.