Definition of Pronominal

1. Adjective. Relating to pronouns. "Pronominal reference"

Partainyms: Pronoun

2. Noun. A phrase that functions as a pronoun.
Exact synonyms: Pronominal Phrase
Generic synonyms: Phrase

Definition of Pronominal

1. a. Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.

Definition of Pronominal

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as of a pronoun. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pronominal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pronominal

pronghorn antelope
pronghorns
pronging
prongs
prongy
pronic
pronities
pronity
pronk
pronked
pronking
pronks
pronoia
pronomial
pronominal (current term)
pronominal adverb
pronominal adverbs
pronominal phrase
pronominal verb
pronominal verbs
pronominalize
pronominalized
pronominalizes
pronominalizing
pronominally
pronota
pronotal
pronotaries
pronotary

Literary usage of Pronominal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"The pronominal Declension has in some languages (eg Lithuanian and the Teutonic languages) extended itself from these pronominal Adjectives to all ..."

2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"The pronominal subject is often reduplicated without apparent reason. ... The subjective pronominal forms are closely related to the independent ones. ..."

3. A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: To Wit, Hindi by John Beames (1879)
"The pronominal adverbs may be at once assumed to have sprung from the pronouns to ... On the other hand, the adverbs which have no pronominal meaning are ..."

4. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1913)
"A number of adjectives — some of them coming from pronominal roots, others more or less analogous with pronouns in use — are inflected, in part or wholly, ..."

5. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1890)
"... In the Sanskrit ta-twe have the same pronominal element repeated twice, and this repeated pronominal element became afterwards the general sign of the ..."

6. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1879)
"For the numerous and frequently nsed adverbs formed from pronominal roots, ... A number of adjectives — some of them coming from pronominal roots, ..."

7. English grammar by Frederick Avarne White, Ben Jonson (1882)
"pronominal Adverbs. The following adverbs are pronominal, being derived from the pronouns he, the, who:— And from these many compound pronominal adverbs are ..."

8. A Grammar of the Hindi Language: In which are Treated the Standard Hindí by Samuel Henry Kellogg (1876)
"The remaining pronominal forms correspond closely to the Braj. ... Besides the above pronouns many pronominal adjectives occur. They may nearly all be used ..."

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