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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pol•y•syn•thet•ic (pol′ē sin thet′ik),USA pronunciation adj. - Linguistics(of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Cf. analytic (def. 3), synthetic (def. 3).
- of or pertaining to polysynthesism.
Also, pol′y•syn•thet′i•cal. - Late Greek polysýnthet(os) much compounded + -ic. See poly-, synthetic
- 1795–1805
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