copulative
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
Types & categories
- verb hypernym
Related & opposite
- copulative derivation
- copular derivation
Sense 2 adjective
syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence
`and' is a copulative conjunction
Related & opposite
- copula derivation
- grammar domain topic
- conjunctive similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | copulative |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | copular |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | verb |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | copula |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | grammar |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | conjunctive |