Meanings
adjectivephrasal (comparative more phrasal, superlative most phrasal)
comparative more phrasal · superlative most phrasal
- Relating to, or used in the manner of, a phrase.
nounphrasal (plural phrasals)
plural phrasals
- grammarA grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.
Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.
1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105- grammarA phrasal verb.
Origin
- Englishphrase
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishphrasal
Translations
Esperanto fraza, fraza
- frazabeing a phrase
- frazarelating to a phrase
German phrasalisch, Ausdrucks-
- phrasalischbeing a phrase
- Ausdrucks-relating to a phrase
- Satz-relating to a phrase
Greek φραστικός, εκφραστικός
- φραστικός (frastikós)being a phrase
- εκφραστικός (ekfrastikós)being a phrase
- φραστικός (frastikós)relating to a phrase
Portuguese frasal, frasal
- frasalbeing a phrase
- frasalrelating to a phrase
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with phrasal
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All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
phrasal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phrasal
MLA
“phrasal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phrasal. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “phrasal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phrasal.
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