gradable
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gradable (not comparable)
- Able to form degrees or grades
- (linguistics, of a word or phrase) Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.
- Synonym: comparable
- Antonyms: non-gradable, ungradable
- 2007, James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith, Semantics: A Coursebook[1]:
- Hot and cold are gradable antonyms.
- steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle
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grammar: able to occur in degrees
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gradable (plural gradables)
- (linguistics) A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.