alexical

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adjective

Not lexical.

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Meanings

adjectivealexical (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareNot lexical.

    In Wolfram hatte Hunger, we would not say that Wolfram is the possessor of the hunger. Hence, the descriptive content is close to nothing, and it is perhaps somewhat arbitrary whether one considers hab- to be alexical or lexical.

    2002, Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Issues in formal German(ic) typology, page 157

Origin

From a- + lexical.

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Cite this entry
APA

alexical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alexical

MLA

“alexical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alexical. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alexical,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alexical.

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